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An Egyptian Papyrus from 2000 Years Ago Reveals How Much the Roman Poet Who Inspired Karl Marx Copied Greece

For years, a small fragment of papyrus lay unnoticed in the collections of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo. No one had looked closely at it until, in early 2026, Belgian papyrologist Nathan Carlig of the University of Liège realized what he had in front of him: a previously unknown fragment of the […]

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The back cover of an 8th-century codex hid ten papyri, six of which remain undeciphered because no one knows what language they are written in

In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Barcelona, they discovered that the back cover hid something more than leather and stitches. Beneath the skin, placed in folds, appeared ten fragments of papyrus. More than a century later, six of […]

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