Did Jesus have a wife? It's a question experts, researchers and believers have debated for years. A new study may point toward "yes." Researchers at Columbia University have started running new tests ...

ROME — It served first as a notebook for ancient painters and then as part of a mummy’s wrapping. Now, a 1st century BC parchment believed to contain the earliest cartography of the Greek-Roman era ...

A faded fragment of papyrus known as the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” which caused an uproar when unveiled in 2012 by a Harvard Divinity School historian, has been tested by scientists who conclude in a ...

In a remarkable archaeological find, a rare papyrus containing the ‘Book of the Dead’ has been unearthed in an ancient ...

The Euripidean text dates to the 3 rd century CE. It is written on the back of a land survey from the late 2 nd century CE or early 3 rd century CE. It contains an excerpt from Ino in the first column ...

A team of German scientists has used a combination of cutting-edge physics techniques to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus, part of an extensive collection housed in the Berlin Egyptian ...

Since the 16th century, Basel has been home to a mysterious papyrus. With mirror writing on both sides, it has puzzled generations of researchers. A research team has now discovered that it is an ...

A scrap of papyrus dated to the fourth century has written on it in the ancient Coptic language, “Jesus said to them, my wife,” reopening the debate about whether Jesus was married, as some early ...

A noted religious scholar doubts the veracity of a papyrus text that purports to reveal that Jesus had a wife — but includes a typo. REUTERS A noted religious scholar doubts the veracity of a papyrus ...

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