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The books of the New Testament were written in the 1st century CE. As Christianity spread in the 2nd century CE, many copies were made, some by non-professionals. Early manuscripts are considered to be closer to the original than later manuscripts...

The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (c. 1800 BCE) deals with conception and pregnancy issues as well as contraception. It is kept in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

19th Dynasty copy of the Ipuwer Papyrus (known as The Lamentations of Ipuwer or The Admonitions of Ipuwer) in which a Middle Kingdom scribe laments the depths to which the country of Egypt has fallen. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The...

An image of the ancient manuscript of the Gospel of John known as P52, or Papyrus 52. This is currently not only the oldest known manuscript of the Gospel of John, but the earliest known manuscript of the entire New Testament in general...

A detail from a Book of the Dead, on papyrus showing hieratic writing of Hornefer, Ptolemaic Period, provenance unknown. (Museo Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Sheets of the Westcar Papyrus, Egyptian, date disputed. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

A reproduction of the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE), an Egyptian medical text.

Papyrus of Nesmin; sheet 2 with cols. 5-8. Hieratic text, found in Thebes, Egypt, dating to the Ptolemaic Period. The 'Songs of Isis and Nephthys' are cols. 1—17

This is a close-up image of the so-called "Abbott Papyrus". It was a hieratic legal record of an official inspection of certain tombs. The text contains an account of the official examination of Royal Tombs in the Theban Necropolis, after...

A papyrus letter, written in Aramaic, from the fortified island of Elephantine in Egypt. The letter was written c. 419 BCE by a Jewish man named Hananiah and is addressed to his brother Jedoniah and the rest of the Jews garrisoned at Elephantine...