While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white pigment lining the body of a jackal illustrated in one of the scenes.

A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.

Learn about the surprising discovery that shows that even ancient Egyptians used Wite-Out to fix their mistakes.

Ancient Egyptian craftspeople used a corrective fluid similar to modern-day Wite-Out to fix their mistakes, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum. Curators made ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

The discovery was made at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where experts were preparing an Egyptian scroll for an exhibition.

A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...

A 3,300-year-old Egyptian Book of the Dead papyrus reveals that ancient artists used a white mixture as the correction fluid.