Much later came the Egyptians, writing on papyrus made from plants in hieroglyphs, arguably the most beautiful form of writing ever devised. Also, however, very difficult and slow to be learned. Thus ...

Sometime during the 1960s-1980s the papyrus fragment was cataloged and photographed in Oxford. ... making it one of the earliest examples of Christian writing, ...

Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...

2,700-year-old inscribed papyrus, a letter to 'Ishmael' written in early Hebrew script, joins only two others from biblical times. But that's just the beginning of the story ...

Written on papyrus in either the 4th or 5th century, it had been stored at a library in Hamburg, Germany, for decades and was long believed to be an insignificant document.

The papyrus, now known as P.Oxy. 5575, may be the oldest surviving written record of the Sermon on the Mount. It is thought to be the earliest, or one of the earliest, pieces of the Gospel of Thomas.

Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number of items, such as sails, boats and baskets. It was also a writing material, and rare ancient texts were often composed on papyrus.