The papyrus has 13 lines of Greek letters ... of Thomas was thought to be written but centuries earlier than other manuscripts, researchers said. The codex, previously thought to be the oldest ...

An ancient Greek papyrus roll from the era of Philip II of Macedon’s reign between the years 340 and 320 B.C., was considered to be Europe’s oldest legible manuscript today. The name given to ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving ... persons copy them down at least once beforehand onto other papyrus scrolls. A scribe working in Constantinople handwrites ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... workers at Herculaneum discovered more than 1,000 papyrus scrolls that were singed and covered with debris when volcanic mud buried ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...