Most of papyrus documents have reached us in a very fragmentary state due to their excavation conditions and, because of the early history of papyrology, without an archaeological contextualisation.

Recently, the writing in rolled Herculaneum papyri was successfully explored by X-ray phase-contrast tomography 1,2. These scrolls are part of a complete library, containing hundreds of such papyrus ...

Fragment from the Tebtunis temple library in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection. University of Copenhagen A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen conducted a study analyses of 2,000-year ...

Scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have discovered the composition of red and black inks in ancient Egyptian papyri from ...

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Researchers studied a small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the River Nile a little over 100 years ago. The team used serval methods including non-destructive ...

Researchers from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Berlin universities and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin studied a small piece of papyrus that was excavated on the island of Elephantine on the ...