biblical

Stories of giants have always stood at the uneasy crossroads of faith, folklore, and archaeology. Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical encounters? The answer, it turns out, depends very much on who is reading the papyrus, and what they are hoping to find. At the center of the discussion is Papyrus Anastasi I, a New Kingdom Egyptian document written in hieratic script and dated to the 13th century BC. Though long known to scholars, the text has recently drawn renewed attention after being highlighted by researchers affiliated with the Associates for Biblical Research and