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  2. List of papyri from ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Photo of ancient papyrus document, showing vertical and horizontal striations from the strips of pith of the papyrus plant. This list of papyri from ancient Egypt includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek. Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical texts which ...

  3. Category:Papyri from ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian papyri containing images (13 P) Egyptian papyri in Aramaic (12 P) O. Oxyrhynchus papyri (32 C, 11 P, 3 F) Pages in category "Papyri from ancient Egypt"

  4. Joseph Smith Papyri - Wikipedia

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    The Joseph Smith Papyri (JSP) are Egyptian funerary papyrus fragments from ancient Thebes dated between 300 and 100 BC which, along with four mummies, were once owned by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith purchased the mummies and papyrus documents from a traveling exhibitor in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1835.

  5. Glossary of ancient Egypt artifacts - Wikipedia

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    Papyrus – a material made from papyrus reeds, used as writing and painting material; Pectoral (Ancient Egypt) – many forms. (Up to 13 additional Gardiner-unlisted determinative hieroglyphs for the "pectoral"; See Gardiner's sign list.) Rosetta Stone – A stone with three languages on it, which unlocked the Egyptian language

  6. Turin King List - Wikipedia

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    The papyrus was found by the Italian traveler Bernardino Drovetti in 1820 in Luxor (Thebes), Egypt and was acquired in 1824 by the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy and was designated Papyrus Number 1874. When the box in which it had been transported to Italy was unpacked, the list had disintegrated into small fragments.

  7. Spells for the afterlife found on 52-foot papyrus scroll from ...

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    Waziri Papyrus 1 is the longest and most complete Book of the Dead written in hieratic script to be found in Saqqara, experts said. It is the first one found in over 100 years, officials said in a ...

  8. Tebtunis archive - Wikipedia

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    The Tebtunis papyri are written in either Demotic Egyptian or Koine Greek and were found during a single expedition led by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, two British papyrologists in the winter of 1899/1900 at the village of ancient Tebtunis (near modern Umm-el-Baragat), Egypt. [1]

  9. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...