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Papyrology is the study of ancient writings on papyrus and related materials, primarily from Egypt, and typically dating from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Books in this category explore how papyri are discovered, conserved, deciphered, and edited; they present transcriptions, translations, and commentaries of both literary texts and everyday documents such as letters, contracts, petitions, tax receipts, and legal records. The field spans multiple languages—especially Greek, Demotic Egyptian, Coptic, Latin, and Aramaic—and intersects with classics, ancient history, law, linguistics, and biblical and early Christian studies. Titles range from handbooks, catalogues, and facsimiles (e.g., Oxyrhynchus collections) to thematic studies that reconstruct social, economic, and religious life, alongside technical guides in paleography and philology and resources for digital text corpora.

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