The press has a long story to tell and is responsible for shaping public opinion, which is a touchstone of democracy. The ancient Egyptians published on papyrus and water hyacinth leaves, as recorded ...

Proof that ancient wrestling wasn’t always on the level has been found among 500,000 fragments of papyri discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, more than a century ago. One fragment, recently scrutinized ...

Handwriting – one of mankind’s greatest inventions – has quite literally written the future by allowing us to pass on ideas from one generation to the next. Today it's hard to imagine how society ...