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And more papyri could still be found on lower floors of the villa, which have yet to be excavated.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

“Ithaca’s architecture makes it really applicable to any ancient language, not just Latin, but Mayan, cuneiform; really any written medium — papyri, manuscripts,” she said.

From The Verge • Mar. 9, 2022

In another prominent case, the Greens bought about 150 papyrus fragments in 2010–13 from Dirk Obbink, a professor who most probably stole them from the collection of papyri he oversaw at Oxford University.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2021

The museum, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, would be sending another 11,500 artifacts — 5,000 papyri fragments and 6,500 clay objects — back to Iraq and Egypt because of “insufficient provenance.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2020

Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro