“This papyrus is extraordinary because it provides direct insight into trial preparations in this part of the Roman Empire,” said Dr. Anna Dolganov of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Centuries ago, one of the first Christians in the Roman Empire to live in the province of Egypt wrote a letter to an acquaintance on papyrus—a kind of thick form of paper used in ancient times ...

Specifically, the papyrus contains an ancient medical text that describes “hysterical apnea,” according to Huebner, who says that the text is either by the Roman physician Galen or an unknown ...

Ancient Papyrus Fragments By Rima Chaddha Posted 11.01.06 NOVA scienceNOW During the Greek and Roman occupations of Eygpt, from 332 B.C. to A.D. 641, the city of Oxyrhynchus became the third ...

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The papyrus offers new insights into Roman law in the Greek-speaking eastern empire, referencing the governor of Iudaea's assize tour and compulsory jury service.

Have you ever wondered why English uses both uppercase and lowercase letters? While capitals begin sentences and proper nouns, and lowercase is used for everything else, this wasn’t always the case.

The papyrus, found in the Judean desert in the 1950s, includes a tale of two men who lived in a border region between two Roman provinces.