A new study has found that wasabi—the spicy green paste that pairs well with sushi—can be used as a tool to conserve ancient papyrus scrolls. Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number ...

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Most of papyrus documents have reached us in a very fragmentary state due to their excavation conditions and, because of the early history of papyrology, without an archaeological contextualisation.

Long before it filled our notepads and books, paper was an idea locked up inside the tall, slender, and sturdy stalks of a grass-like plant that grew abundantly along the muddy banks of the Nile in ...