papyrus

Once the writing was finished, Seiler, an affiliate of Berkeley SETI, rolled up the papyrus, sealed it inside a container, placed it in a high-temperature furnace, and burned it until it was thoroughly carbonized.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

If some ancient inks contained lead, he reasoned, that metal might absorb X rays far more strongly than the surrounding carbonized papyrus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

The scan is used to create a 3D reconstruction, then the layers inside the scroll - it contains about 10m of papyrus - have to be identified.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

But the most likely case is that interstellar communication will be a kind of palimpsest, like the palimpsests of ancient writers short of papyrus or stone who superimposed their messages on top of preexisting messages.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

She currently translates Greek and Egyptian writing preserved on ancient papyri at UC Berkeley's Center for the Tebtunis Papyri in the Bancroft Library.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Early attempts to open the papyri created a mess of fragments, and scholars feared the remainder could never be unrolled or read.

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 Jeremiah Curtin

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 manœuvres.

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