From an ancient storehouse of papyri called He Who Grinds. 🤣
November 2, 2026 at 11:51 PM
From an ancient storehouse of papyri called He Who Grinds. 🤣
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench · How to keep count: Power to the Plebs
Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
November 4, 2026 at 6:34 AM
i feel super dumb and out of date reading ancient greek papyri
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
October 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM
i feel super dumb and out of date reading ancient greek papyri
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
i like that stuff but no company asks for a classicist
That name hrw-nfr “Horus the Good” is attested later as Ἁρνοῦφις in Greek papyri and would lack the o-vowel in the right spot. But the similar name Hr.w-wnn-nfr = Άροννώφρι(ς) could produce *Haron~Ahron by lopping off the ending *-nophri. Very ad hoc though.
October 31, 2026 at 12:27 PM
That name hrw-nfr “Horus the Good” is attested later as Ἁρνοῦφις in Greek papyri and would lack the o-vowel in the right spot. But the similar name Hr.w-wnn-nfr = Άροννώφρι(ς) could produce *Haron~Ahron by lopping off the ending *-nophri. Very ad hoc though.
I want to draw but noooooo i had to enroll in higher learning so now i’m collecting data on ancient egyptian papyri instead of making art or music.
October 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I want to draw but noooooo i had to enroll in higher learning so now i’m collecting data on ancient egyptian papyri instead of making art or music.
Papyri Fragments https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/479300
October 29, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Papyri Fragments https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/479300
Included in Feminist Works Roundup: Mother of All, Eater of Flesh: The Goddess in the Greek Magical Papyri, For Halloween, let me take you down to the dark side of ancient magic (and absolutely my favourite historical source of all time).
Roundup URL:…
Continued on Substack
Roundup URL:…
Continued on Substack
Mother of All, Eater of Flesh: The Goddess in the Greek Magical Papyri
For Halloween, let me take you down to the dark side of ancient magic (and absolutely my favourite historical source of all time)
theherstorian.substack.com
November 2, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Included in Feminist Works Roundup: Mother of All, Eater of Flesh: The Goddess in the Greek Magical Papyri, For Halloween, let me take you down to the dark side of ancient magic (and absolutely my favourite historical source of all time).
Roundup URL:…
Continued on Substack
Roundup URL:…
Continued on Substack
A carbonised scroll buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD has yielded its first readable phrase in two thousand years. The result reopens research on the Herculaneum papyri through digital reading and lead-based ink detection.
Researchers read text from a Herculaneum scroll for the first time
A carbonised scroll buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD has yielded its first readable phrase in two thousand years. The result reopens research on the Herculaneum papyri through digital reading and lead-base
www.alextech.ai
November 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
A carbonised scroll buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD has yielded its first readable phrase in two thousand years. The result reopens research on the Herculaneum papyri through digital reading and lead-based ink detection.
The Arabic Papyri presents 258 early Islamic documents, revealing daily life, language, and trade.
All proceeds generated from The Khalili Collections book purchases benefit the charitable endeavours of the Khalili Foundation directly.
Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/6f6j7f25
#khalilipublications
All proceeds generated from The Khalili Collections book purchases benefit the charitable endeavours of the Khalili Foundation directly.
Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/6f6j7f25
#khalilipublications
November 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The Arabic Papyri presents 258 early Islamic documents, revealing daily life, language, and trade.
All proceeds generated from The Khalili Collections book purchases benefit the charitable endeavours of the Khalili Foundation directly.
Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/6f6j7f25
#khalilipublications
All proceeds generated from The Khalili Collections book purchases benefit the charitable endeavours of the Khalili Foundation directly.
Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/6f6j7f25
#khalilipublications
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench · How to keep count: Power to the Plebs
Ordinary people in the Roman Empire are often only glimpsed; where they are foregrounded, they tend to be treated with...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
‘Ordinary people in the Roman Empire rarely tracked incoming and outgoing amounts in the same place, but they did assiduously record them, scribbling numbers on scraps of papyri, potsherds, wood tablets and walls.’
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emma Dench on daily Roman life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
New blog post: @p-rianka.bsky.social takes us into the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social where the new #papyri project @unicologne.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de is well underway.
📝 uni.koeln/WWGST
📷️️ Violet Carter for the UC Berkeley Library (left); Marcel Schaeben/CCeH
📝 uni.koeln/WWGST
📷️️ Violet Carter for the UC Berkeley Library (left); Marcel Schaeben/CCeH
November 4, 2026 at 9:51 AM
New blog post: @p-rianka.bsky.social takes us into the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social where the new #papyri project @unicologne.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de is well underway.
📝 uni.koeln/WWGST
📷️️ Violet Carter for the UC Berkeley Library (left); Marcel Schaeben/CCeH
📝 uni.koeln/WWGST
📷️️ Violet Carter for the UC Berkeley Library (left); Marcel Schaeben/CCeH
rooms inside & all the tightly packed stacks of periodicals going back to the days of papyri & we developed an obsession for J. D. Salinger ~ 12 when we'd just finished reading Voltaire's 'Candide' & 'Catcher in the Rye' & so we went to UK Library to look up all the original serialized stories that
November 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
rooms inside & all the tightly packed stacks of periodicals going back to the days of papyri & we developed an obsession for J. D. Salinger ~ 12 when we'd just finished reading Voltaire's 'Candide' & 'Catcher in the Rye' & so we went to UK Library to look up all the original serialized stories that
That part of Illinois is very interesting for its ties to Mormonism & their reception of Ancient Egypt. I toured it a few years ago.
Joseph Smith did channeled translations of papyri there.
And, after his murder, his mother stayed behind in Nauvoo & would show a mummy to visitors for $.
Joseph Smith did channeled translations of papyri there.
And, after his murder, his mother stayed behind in Nauvoo & would show a mummy to visitors for $.
October 28, 2026 at 7:23 PM
That part of Illinois is very interesting for its ties to Mormonism & their reception of Ancient Egypt. I toured it a few years ago.
Joseph Smith did channeled translations of papyri there.
And, after his murder, his mother stayed behind in Nauvoo & would show a mummy to visitors for $.
Joseph Smith did channeled translations of papyri there.
And, after his murder, his mother stayed behind in Nauvoo & would show a mummy to visitors for $.
Y precisamente la Eneida era un texto de lo más normie.
Virgil's ubiquity: Virgilian texts on papyri, ostraca, writing tablets, graffiti, and dipinti, and the question of literacy in the Roman Empire
Abstract From the large number of quotations that survive in the vast and varied written documents of the Roman imperial period, it is evident that Virgil was the most popular poet, at least in the La...
www.akjournals.com
October 29, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Y precisamente la Eneida era un texto de lo más normie.
🧩 KI-gestütztes Puzzeln mit 20.000 Papyrusfragmenten: Durch die Verbindung der Teile lassen sich Texte rekonstruieren. Dadurch entstehen „neue Einblicke ins Alte Ägypten, in eine Gesellschaft, in der griechische und ägyptische Traditionen aufeinandertrafen […]“, so Projektleiterin Prof. Dr. Armoni.
October 29, 2026 at 9:17 AM
🧩 KI-gestütztes Puzzeln mit 20.000 Papyrusfragmenten: Durch die Verbindung der Teile lassen sich Texte rekonstruieren. Dadurch entstehen „neue Einblicke ins Alte Ägypten, in eine Gesellschaft, in der griechische und ägyptische Traditionen aufeinandertrafen […]“, so Projektleiterin Prof. Dr. Armoni.
(put one word under another one, like bricks,"
and [add the usual, whatever] you want). And on the left wing write this in the same pattern: “PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA PHOR-
PHOR PHORBABOR / BORBORBA PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA" "
From the Greek Magical Papyri.
and [add the usual, whatever] you want). And on the left wing write this in the same pattern: “PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA PHOR-
PHOR PHORBABOR / BORBORBA PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA" "
From the Greek Magical Papyri.
October 31, 2026 at 7:36 AM
(put one word under another one, like bricks,"
and [add the usual, whatever] you want). And on the left wing write this in the same pattern: “PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA PHOR-
PHOR PHORBABOR / BORBORBA PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA" "
From the Greek Magical Papyri.
and [add the usual, whatever] you want). And on the left wing write this in the same pattern: “PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA BORPHOR PHORBA PHOR-
PHOR PHORBABOR / BORBORBA PHÖRPHÖR PHORBA" "
From the Greek Magical Papyri.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. 89 has now been published. It includes three editions by me: 5685. Hexameters (Dionysius, BASSARICA?); 5688. Hexameters on Stones; and 5700 (Oppian, HALIEUTICA 3, co-authored with B.W. Henry). Vols of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri can be ordered at: www.ees.ac.uk/our-cause/pu...
Graeco-Roman Memoirs
A volume of translations of papyri discovered by Grenfell and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus, as well as other papyri and Graeco-Roman material held by the Society.
www.ees.ac.uk
October 25, 2026 at 11:41 AM
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. 89 has now been published. It includes three editions by me: 5685. Hexameters (Dionysius, BASSARICA?); 5688. Hexameters on Stones; and 5700 (Oppian, HALIEUTICA 3, co-authored with B.W. Henry). Vols of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri can be ordered at: www.ees.ac.uk/our-cause/pu...
Even the LDS Church's own essay concedes: Egyptologists ID the Book of Abraham papyri as funerary texts from centuries after Abraham, and the characters don't match Joseph Smith's translation. Testimony accepted. Status: Original work.
🧾 Receipts: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual...
🧾 Receipts: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual...
October 27, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Even the LDS Church's own essay concedes: Egyptologists ID the Book of Abraham papyri as funerary texts from centuries after Abraham, and the characters don't match Joseph Smith's translation. Testimony accepted. Status: Original work.
🧾 Receipts: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual...
🧾 Receipts: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual...
I can't wait to watch this! Having spoken with Warren about this at length, it is a truly fascinating fragment and can teach us so much about the circulation of documents, papyri, people etc in the early medieval world
The recording of the lecture by Dr. Warren C. Brown (Caltech), held on April 17, 2026, is now available to view on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/d2rQoqcCPzo?.... Check it out!
October 26, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I can't wait to watch this! Having spoken with Warren about this at length, it is a truly fascinating fragment and can teach us so much about the circulation of documents, papyri, people etc in the early medieval world
Take a look and, if you want to explore further, then why not sign up to the course? Get your tickets here: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...
Don’t forget, if you’re a current member of the EES, then you’ll get 50% discount off your online course ticket.
Don’t forget, if you’re a current member of the EES, then you’ll get 50% discount off your online course ticket.
Papyrology: In the Words of the People
Read documentary papyri in English translation and examine everything from ancient love letters to heated court depositions with Leah Packard-Grams. Start time - 18:00 (UK) / 20:00 (Egypt)
www.ees.ac.uk
October 28, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Take a look and, if you want to explore further, then why not sign up to the course? Get your tickets here: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...
Don’t forget, if you’re a current member of the EES, then you’ll get 50% discount off your online course ticket.
Don’t forget, if you’re a current member of the EES, then you’ll get 50% discount off your online course ticket.
never make OCs worst mistake of my life 💯💯I’m reading spells to cure dog bites from the greek magical papyri
October 24, 2026 at 8:58 PM
never make OCs worst mistake of my life 💯💯I’m reading spells to cure dog bites from the greek magical papyri
www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
Nowhere is Herculaneum’s affluence more apparent than in the Villa of the Papyri. In 1750, inside this remarkable estate, archaeologists unearthed a vast library of ancient scrolls.
Nowhere is Herculaneum’s affluence more apparent than in the Villa of the Papyri. In 1750, inside this remarkable estate, archaeologists unearthed a vast library of ancient scrolls.
'Thought to be lost forever': After 2,000 years, a library buried by Pompeii’s eruption is finally revealing its secrets | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The scrolls of Herculaneum are being unravelled by AI (among other things)
www.sciencefocus.com
October 25, 2026 at 3:14 PM
www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
Nowhere is Herculaneum’s affluence more apparent than in the Villa of the Papyri. In 1750, inside this remarkable estate, archaeologists unearthed a vast library of ancient scrolls.
Nowhere is Herculaneum’s affluence more apparent than in the Villa of the Papyri. In 1750, inside this remarkable estate, archaeologists unearthed a vast library of ancient scrolls.
You stumble upon odd things among the papyri.
October 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
You stumble upon odd things among the papyri.