Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

“There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

Papyrus, used as a writing surface by the ancient Egyptians, is the main livelihood for residents of a Nile Delta village A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen ...

For the first time in a hundred years, archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a 16-meter-long ancient papyrus, as reported first by Arkeonews. A woman looks at papyrus on March 6 ...

A girl shows a papyrus souvenir in Qaramos village of Sharqiya province, Egypt, on Dec. 17, 2019. In Qaramos village, people of different ages can be seen around carrying papyrus sticks from the farms ...