Who built the pyramids? We still wonder today, but this diary might help us determine the individual responsible for one of the wonders of the world.

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, but four. The Mishnah in Tamid (5:1) tells us that in Temple times the ...

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world. As it is extremely sensitive to ...

A triangle pointing right which indicates this type of media can be played. Only 40 Benin Bronze makers are left in Nigeria as it fights to have its stolen artifacts returned A triangle pointing ...

An incredible 1,900-year-old papyrus sheds light on an ancient criminal case involving forgery, tax fraud and slaves from the Roman empire. This papyrus, which was discovered in the 1950s but ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants ... further noted that “this document shows that core Roman institutions documented in Egypt were also implemented throughout the empire.” ...

JABAL SUKARI, EGYPT— La Brújula Verde reports that the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities completed a two-year ...

Because of the Greek presence in the last three centuries BCE and the persistence of Greek as a primary language when Egypt became a Roman province after the death of Cleopatra, many papyrus books and ...

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 ...

Kemp, Barry J. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization. Psychology Press, 2006. Magazine, Smithsonian, and Alexander Stille. "The World's Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great ...