A controversial papyrus scrap making that suggestion dates ... "I have not found a 'smoking gun' that indicates beyond doubt that the text was not written in antiquity, but nor can such an ...

The site yielded a diverse array of relics, including historical documents on papyrus fragments, bronze coins bearing Greek rulers’ images, weaponry, and ancient furniture, all remarkably preser ...

Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority. Among the findings so far are papyrus documents written in Greek, Ptolemaic, and Antiochus IV bronze coins, weapons, wooden tools, and well-preserved ...

Yet for all the arguments and efforts, there was no smoking gun - on either side. And so the papyrus was submitted for testing: carbon-dating of the papyrus itself as well as chemical testing of ...

but they do suggest that the papyrus is authentic. In one of the papers published Thursday, Macquarie University's Malcolm Choat, an expert on ancient writing, said he saw no "smoking gun ...