The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor (with tenure) of a scholar with a dual focus on Computational Hum...

Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are now on display in Winni...

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This is a call for papers for Parallel panel 21 at the International Epigraphic Congress (CIEGL). Parallel sessions are intended to collect 20-minute presentations. Proposals may be submitted accordin...

However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.

Fascinated with the ancient world, this classics grad found his path in archeology.

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<I>Garden of Egypt: Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyūm</I> is the first environmental history of Egypt's Fayyūm depression. The volume studies human relationships with flowing ...

Peeters Publishers Leuven

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 …