John Gaudet looks and sounds like he could have walked right out of a Graham Greene novel, or maybe written one of those classic African explorer books. Seventeen years on the continent for the Rhode ...

Egyptian officials have released photos of an ancient scroll, the 52-foot-long (16 meters) Book of the Dead papyrus recently discovered in Saqqara. The 10 images show ancient illustrations of gods and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb ...

In the battle for e-book reader domination, Samsung’s Papyrus—a new touchscreen model. The A5 paper-size Papyrus features a stylus and 512MB of memory, and comes in a range of colors, including white, ...

For the first time in a hundred years, archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a 16-meter-long ancient papyrus, as reported first by Arkeonews. A woman looks at papyrus on March 6 ...

Why do readers love books? For wisdom and wit, the lift of comedy and the noble pain of tragedy; for advice, comfort and entertainment. But content and sentiment apart, they are loved as objects. Most ...

“PAPYRUS: The Plant That Changed the World — From Ancient Egypt to Today’s Water Wars,” by John Gaudet. Pegasus Books. 279 pages. $28.95.... “PAPYRUS: The Plant That Changed the World — From Ancient ...