A 1,500-year-old fragment of Greek papyrus with writing that refers to the biblical Last Supper and "manna from heaven" may be one of the oldest Christian amulets, say researchers. The fragment was ...

A 1,500-year old piece of papyrus recently re-discovered in a U.K. university library contains some of the earliest documented references to the Last Supper and ‘manna from heaven.’ The papyrus ...

The so-called Rylands Library Papyrus P52 may be tiny in size but its archaeological significance cannot be overstated. Housed in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, the fragment measures ...

A 1,500 year old papyrus fragment found in The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library has been identified as one the world’s earliest surviving Christian charms. The remarkable document ...

One of the world’s oldest Christian ‘charms’ has been discovered in a Manchester library. The 1,500-year-old document was unearthed in the vault of John Rylands Library on Deansgate. Academics from ...

Archaeologists used a combination of carbon-14 dating, handwriting analysis and text comparison to date the papyrus fragment found inside a first-century Egyptian funeral mask, pictured here. Craig ...