Book science helps decipher and preserve fragile manuscripts, at a moment when climate change and mass digitization are ...

When paper dries and is subsequently rewetted, its properties change permanently. This phenomenon is known as hornification.

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, ...

The Booker Prize-winning author is back with his first novel in 10 years – but there are good reasons for the long break.

The M60 is seeing traffic queues build as the motorway is closed in both directions near Manchester. The closure is affecting ...

Earlier this month Wisconsin Watch reported there are 1,450 Wisconsin residents who are on lists waiting to receive an organ transplant. Those waits are getting longer as a rising number ...

THE heartbreaking last words of the paralysed gang-rape victim Noelia Castillo Ramos who died by euthanasia have been ...

Ancient Egyptian physicians documented treatments on papyrus, revealing a sophisticated medical system. While most eye ...

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The ...

Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...

New light has been shed on the working methods—and attention to detail—of Ancient Egyptian craftspeople, after researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, identified what has been ...

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir has completed the conservation and restoration work on the papyrus of the scribe User-Hat-Mes, from the Late Period, as part of ongoing efforts to preserve the country’s ...