The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square is hosting a new exhibition that reintroduces papyrus, one of Egypt’s most ancient ...

Wasabi vapours are potent enough to kill fungi growing on painted papyrus fragments – all without damaging the fragile artefacts or altering the appearance of their vivid colours. Fungus can damage ...

An eagle-eyed expert has stumbled upon a fragment of what is thought to be part of the world's oldest book. Conservator Theresa Zammi Lupi discovered a notebook page from ancient Egypt — dating back ...

Jesus of Nazareth is at the center of some of the largest religions in the world, but a Harvard professor believes he had a wife, unknown until recently. Karen King claimed in 2012 that a fragment of ...