"Usually, in this area, no visitor gets in," Verena Lepper tells me on a gray Friday morning in Berlin. She gently closed a set of double doors behind us, careful not to create any vibrations in the ...

The 10 plagues include swarms of locusts, three days of darkness and the death of every firstborn son A MYSTERIOUS papyrus scroll has the potential to prove the story of the 10 plagues of Egypt ...

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

A 3,300-year-old Egyptian document housed in the British Museum is drawing renewed attention from archaeologists and biblical ...

Egyptian officials have released photos of an ancient scroll, the 52-foot-long (16 meters) Book of the Dead papyrus recently discovered in Saqqara. The 10 images show ancient illustrations of gods and ...

In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

Wasabi vapours are potent enough to kill fungi growing on painted papyrus fragments – all without damaging the fragile artefacts or altering the appearance of their vivid colours. Fungus can damage ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara found an ancient, well-preserved papyrus scroll with spells from the Book of the Dead written on it, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...