Very glad to share this CFP for a conference I’m organising with my fab colleague Rhiannon Easterbrook under the auspices of the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. Conference date: …

Join us at AUC Tahrir and on zoom on October 23 for a day of celebration of Egyptian and Palestinian living heritage! The event, the second of a series to be held this year in the context of EO’s 1…

After the two Oxyrhynchus papyri at the centre of my last post, I wish to discuss another papyrus offered by Vienna based InLibris, the so–called Nile flood or inundation papyrus (P. Michael. 4 = T…

How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumption

Manuscript and rare book seller INLIBRIS of Vienna has several papyri, parchments and wooden tablets of great interest for papyrologists and other textual specialists in their catalogue. I’ll keep …

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

Collectors, who keep buying despite my many warnings, alerted me on the appearance of few papyri for sale. A Coptic fragment, mislabeled as “Greek”, was auctioned in France last Sunday …

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from...

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Screenshot of the Brothers Poem papyrus in the box made for the Christie’s London sale: A couple of weeks ago I gave an online talk for the Paideia Institute and realized that many are unawar…

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

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From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...

This blog is dedicated to the dispersed manuscript heritage of St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, Egypt. The library of this ancient monastery hosts one of the world’s most important manuscript ...

Ben Lewis unravels the tangled story of a Christian billionaire family, stolen relics, fake treasures and the scholar turned sleuth who exposed the scandal of biblical proportions. Intrigue: 'Jaw-drop...

A second rare inscription dedicated to Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora has been unearthed at the ancient city of Ulpiana, offering new

At Whale Hunting, we illuminate hidden worlds and expose closely-held secrets. Today, we’re pulling back the velvet curtain on one of the world’s most prestigious museums: the Met. Our latest investi...

Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive ...

An analysis of a 700-year-old ring found in a Hungarian castle reveals a unique reddish-purple sapphire set in 18-karat gold with a lion decoration.

With talented counterfeiters at the top of their game, how on earth do you spot a fake? And does it really matter anyway?

by Kathryn Barush Twenty years ago, I set off for Dharamsala, a hill station in North India, with a backpack stuffed full of notebooks, watercolor tubes, brushes, masking tape, and folding plastic …

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Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rush

Deysi Vargas, her husband and ‘Sofia’ entered country legally in 2023 on humanitarian grounds to seek medical care