BOSTON (AP) A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting explicitly referring to having a wife. Karen King ...

Decoding ancient scripts is a remarkable journey into humanity’s past, unearthing forgotten tales and cultures. The cryptic symbols, etched onto stone, parchment, or clay, often remain as the only ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the largest in the Middle East, might not be a community one would associate with Jersey City. Due to an ongoing cycle of persecution and discrimination in the ...