The papyrus of Senemnetjer is among the earliest known examples of this funerary text, which was used to guide the soul of the deceased on its journey to the afterlife.

And we use the River Nile to provide water for our crops. And you’re even using papyrus. Child: It’s paper actually. Ancient Egyptian: Well, whatever you call it, we invented it. We use it to ...

The climate of Egypt, especially the desert, is excellent for preserving the writing material created from the local papyrus plant and thus excavations at Egyptian sites such as Oxyrhynchus and ...

Using rappelling equipment, advanced technologies, and specialized documentation methods, thousands of rare artifacts have been recovered, including scrolls deliberately hidden in caves, papyrus ...

Rosalie tells Jim Al-Khalili about her journey from classics and ancient history to biomedicine, including some of her adventures in Egypt in the 1960s. She talks about some of her most significant ...

This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes ... It was collected from the Egyptian city of Edfu.

In the lush green fields of Egypt’s fertile Delta Valley, farmers and artisans are struggling to make a living as they keep alive the Pharaonic-era tradition of making papyrus. In the 1970s ...