Ancient papyrus goes on display in Turin

Ancient papyrus goes on display in Turin: "Ancient papyrus goes on display in Turin

(AP Photo/Palazzo Bricherasio Press Office, HO) :: Photo released by the Palazzo Bricherasio Press Office Friday Jan. 27, 2006, showing a section of the 1st-century B.C. Papyrus of Artemidorus, which will be on display next month in Turin, Italy.

By Associated Press
MARTA FALCONI
Updated: 01/27/06

ROME

It served first as a notebook for ancient painters and then as part of a mummy's wrapping. Now, a first century B.C. parchment believed to contain the earliest cartography of the Greek-Roman era will be on display next month in the northern city of Turin."