Rare 'Book of the Dead' Manuscript from Hatshepsut's Reign Found in Trento
The papyrus of Senemnetjer is among the earliest known examples of this funerary text, which was used to guide the soul of ...
Vengeful ghost cat, divorce lizard, phantom horse: the animals that haunted Ancient Rome and Greece
The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...
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Villa of the Papyri treasures resurface: AI restores lost works after 2,000 years
172 is one of nearly 2,000 carbonized scrolls and charred papyrus fragments found in the lost Roman town of Herculaneum in 1750, part of the Herculaneum papyri collection burned during the ...
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About the PapyGreek project
The Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri (PapyGreek) project fills a void in Greek scholarship: the papyrological corpus represents the post-Classical variety of Greek, a bridge between ...
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Romans go home!
Most surviving papyri date to the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods (ca. 323 BCE-641 CE) and encompass numerous textual genres, from legal documents and administrative records to official ...