papyrus

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These were 50 feet high, six feet in diameter, painted with hieroglyphs and topped with gigantic papyrus blossoms.

From Washington Post

ChatGPT might be the reverse of what ink and papyrus and the Gutenberg printing press meant to the world.

From Washington Post

It can be found in a funerary papyrus in the British Museum, a phrase that when read aloud makes the document sound quite serious and perhaps even wholesome.

From Salon

What a book is has certainly changed over time, as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, parchment and quills have given way to codexes, movable type, mechanized printing processes and e-readers.

From New York Times

Elephants slurped papyrus, and a few miles upstream, the forest revealed a setting so tranquil that the loudest noise was startling: a hippo’s sloppy exhale echoing off the water.

From New York Times