Robert Siegel speaks with Elaine Pagels, religion professor at Princeton University, about the discovery of an ancient papyrus fragment that suggests some early Christians believed Jesus had a ...

A Chinese archaeologist has announced new findings about an ancient scrap of paper, likely the earliest on record, dating back to 250 years before Cai Lun revolutionized papermaking technology in ...

History An account of Jesus as a boy is decoded from an ancient papyrus scrap The 1,600-year-old manuscript had sat unnoticed for decades at a German university.

A scrap of papyrus dated to the fourth century has written on it in the ancient Coptic language, “Jesus said to them, my wife,” reopening the debate about whether Jesus was married, as some ...

The Chinese -- who lay claim to inventing paper -- were using it 100 years earlier than previously thought, state press said on Wednesday following a new discovery of an ancient scrap of the ...

Menageries emerge from the endless possibilities of origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper-folding that's never really gone out of fashion and may now become a modern fad in the era of YouTube ...