papyrus

Archaeologists working at the ancient Egyptian site of Oxyrhynchus have made a remarkable discovery: a papyrus containing a passage from Homer's Iliad was found inside a Roman-era mummy dating back about 1,600 years.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Wheat-based glues have a long history in bookbinding that originates in ancient Egyptian texts, which experts have partially attributed to the longevity of the world's collection of papyrus documents.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia devised a love song by around 2000 BCE, and scholars of Ancient Egypt have found love songs inscribed into pottery and written on sheets of papyrus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

Both were molded from cartonnage, created by soaking strips of linen or old papyrus scrolls in a paste and laying them over a woodblock form or the actual head of a mummy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Turning, Ranofer saw that it was the old man he had met in the papyrus marsh.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Located about 190 kilometers south of Cairo near the Bahr Yussef branch of the Nile, the site has long been known for preserving thousands of ancient papyri.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

And more papyri could still be found on lower floors of the villa, which have yet to be excavated.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023

“Ithaca’s architecture makes it really applicable to any ancient language, not just Latin, but Mayan, cuneiform; really any written medium — papyri, manuscripts,” she said.

From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2022

In another prominent case, the Greens bought about 150 papyrus fragments in 2010–13 from Dirk Obbink, a professor who most probably stole them from the collection of papyri he oversaw at Oxford University.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2021

Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Historically, biblical writings, Egyptian papyruses and the medical texts of the classical Greeks show that infertility was a common condition and that women were primarily blamed.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2018

Now, however, German papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede has startled the rarefied world of biblical scholarship by arguing that the papyruses are actually the oldest extant fragments of the New Testament, dating from about A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inscriptions, papyruses, books time-bind the human species and permit us to hear those few voices and faint cries of our brothers and sisters, our ancestors.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

After Hiram’s departure the heir shut himself up in the most remote chamber under pretext of reading sacred papyruses.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Alexander Glovatski

Thou art groping among papyruses, but I have served seven years in the army, and there was almost no day which I did not pass in drill or maneuvers.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin