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“When I saw the first image, I was shocked,” says Federica Nicolardi, a papyrologist at the University of Naples in Italy and a member of the academic committee that reviewed Farritor’s findings.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

“My source is a papyrologist who worked on the manuscript, a man whose reputation is unimpeachable.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020

No expert papyrologist had done a firsthand analysis of whether the handwriting was the same, King pointed out.

From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2015

As David Blank, of U.C.L.A., a prominent American papyrologist, told me, Paderni at first simply cut the scrolls in half lengthwise.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

I’m not a papyrologist, but I thought it was a codex.

From Time • Sep. 25, 2012