The Museum of the Bible in Washington DC will unveil a new rotation of Dead Sea Scrolls next month, featuring a rare 1st-century Isaiah manuscript alongside other ancient biblical and apocryphal texts ...

If you've ever read a letter from antiquity, you may recognize the strange pull it can have. The writer is long gone, the world around them has vanished, and still, the voice can feel close enough to ...

The mummy was found at Oxyrhynchus, a town on the banks of a Nile River branch called Bahr Yussef. By 400 CE, the vital urban ...

Fish en papillote—fish (in this case, salmon) baked in parchment paper parcels—is a hands-off way to get tender, flaky fillets without fuss. The catch: While the texture is sublime, the flavor can be ...

The South Carolina Gamecocks look to win their third national championship in five years when they battle the UCLA Bruins in the women's NCAA Tournament title game on Sunday. South Carolina stunned ...

The Death of Empedocles by Salvatore Rosa (h.1670) Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons This is precisely what specialists in Empedocles are experiencing today. Like the humanists of the ...

A remarkable discovery in Egypt has brought new light to one of ancient Greece’s most influential thinkers, with 30 previously unknown verses by Empedocles uncovered in a centuries-old papyrus. The ...

The Greek philosopher Empedocles is perhaps best known for his theory of the four classical elements: fire, air, earth, and water (plus love and hate). Like many of his contemporaries, Empedocles was ...

Researchers have identified 30 unpublished verses by Empedocles in a papyrus fragment housed in Cairo, Egypt, offering direct access to the ancient Greek philosopher’s writing for the first time. The ...

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic ...