(BGU, ) is an ongoing publishing program, commenced in 1895 of Ancient Greek documents (mostly papyri) by the Berlin State Museums, primarily from the Berlin Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin. The project was originally entitled (Royal Museums) but then changed the title to when the museums' status changed. The term "papyrologist" itself was coined in connection with the establishment of the BGU project.Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists 1994 ed. Adam Bülow-Jacobsen Page 35 "So, there is more to the seemingly arbitrary choice of BGU as the first papyrological edition. In fact, the idea of calling scholars dealing with papyri 'papyrologists' first came up in relation to BGU. In the preface to P.Gen. 1, dated March 1, 1896, ..." The founding editors were Emil Seckel and Wilhelm Schubart.
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