One of the oldest surviving written fragments of Homer’s Odyssey has returned to public display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, bringing visitors face to face with a remarkable piece of ancient Greek literary history.
The small papyrus fragment,...
Most of us assume that looking after our teeth is a modern habit shaped by supermarket shelves, mint-flavored ads, and childhood dentist scares, but a surviving Ancient Greek toothpaste recipe suggests otherwise.
Sitting quietly in the Austrian National Library in...
Correspondence on an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal archaeological findings. There is also a message scratched on a wooden tablet telling the recipient to kill the person who delivered...
Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed what is believed to be the oldest known gym membership, written in Greek nearly 1,800 years ago on a fragment of papyrus.
Discovered in the sandy countryside near Oxyrhynchus, the document offers a rare glimpse into...
The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, "ginesthoi" (Greek: γίνεσθοι), meaning "make it happen" or " so be it".
This remarkable document is a royal decree dated back to...
A mysterious 2,000-year-old papyrus covered in mirror writing, including ancient Greek, had baffled scientists for years. Now researchers in Switzerland think they have solved the riddle of the strange document.
The papyrus papers at the University of Basel formed part...
