Curators examined the Book of the Dead—and found a 3,300-year-old version of Wite-Out

Upon digital and infrared inspection, the team discovered the use of ancient correction fluid to trim a drawing on one of the ...
Yahoo

Egypt unveils renovated wing of oldest museum, new papyrus

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter (52-foot) -long scroll unearthed last year. The refurbishment marks ...

Ancient Egyptian scribes used 'Wite-Out' correction liquid to fix mistakes in sacred texts

While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white ...
Artnet

3,300-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals How Ancient Egyptians Fixed Drawing Mistakes

Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...
Hebdo Ahram

Vienna’s papyrus collection

Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital. The Austrian capital Vienna is one ...
The Art Newspaper

Ancient Egyptian form of ‘Tipp-Ex’ identified on papyrus at UK’s Fitzwilliam Museum

New light has been shed on the working methods—and attention to detail—of Ancient Egyptian craftspeople, after researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, identified what has been ...
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Papyrus fragments at D.C. museum not authentic pieces of Dead Sea Scrolls

Brian Hyland, associate curator from Oklahoma City, interprets a sarcophagus replica of Jonah inside the “Vatican Museums and Vatican Library” exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington Nov. 15, ...