"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus scroll found in a cave in the Judean Desert was filed away in a storage ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a 1,900-year-old scroll describing a tense court case during the Roman occupation of ...

A 1,900-year-old papyrus written in Greek has been deciphered for the first time by a group of Israeli and Austrian scholars. The artifact, renamed Papyrus Cotton, features the notes of a trial in ...

Historians have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus discovered in the Judean desert that details an elaborate tax evasion scheme, forgery and fraudulent sale and manumission of slaves by two men.

1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Gripping Case About Roman Tax Fraud and Forgery A newly-studied ancient papyrus is so detailed it could be an episode of Law & Order, Roman style.

A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide. A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale ...

A team of students deciphered a 2000-year-old papyrus scroll, with some help from AI NPR's Scott Simon asks Prof. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky about deciphering tightly wound, ...

The papyrus scrolls found in a Herculaneum villa in the 1750s were badly charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Since their discovery in the 1700s, researchers have tried many ...

The 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll that was buried by Mount Vesuvius. Related: Groundbreaking Use of AI Technology Helps a Paralyzed Man Begin to Move Again .

University of Nebraska undergraduate student Luke Farritor made a scientific breakthrough after using AI to decipher the first word written on a papyrus scroll that is more than 2,000 years old.

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the ...

Researchers have finally deciphered a 1,900-year-old scroll describing a tense court case during the Roman occupation of Israel. The finding reveals more about criminal cases from the time and ...