An 8-foot-long papyrus scroll found in an ancient tomb, purchased by Andrew Dickson White, is the focal point of an exhibit in the Carl A. Kroch Library rotunda. The scroll resides in the library’s archives, in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, and hasn’t been translated until now.

Fredrika Loew ’12, a rare and manuscript collections assistant, is working on translating the text with Thomas Christiansen, a hieratic scholar in Denmark, and Caitlin Barrett, assistant professor of classics.  Loew created the exhibition around the papyrus – and several other Egypt-related artifacts from the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and Cornell University Library. The display includes mummified birds, an amulet, a kohl jar and an 1824 book deciphering hieratic and hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone. Also on display are White's photographs from his travels in Egypt.