papyrus
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History is a fragile thing, a vision of the past made mostly of fragments—clay tablets and potsherds, papyrus scraps and bits of bone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
If some ancient inks contained lead, he reasoned, that metal might absorb X rays far more strongly than the surrounding carbonized papyrus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The difference between the lead-bearing ink and the surrounding papyrus was striking.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The signal can be exceptionally faint because conventional carbon ink and carbonized papyrus can look very similar to X rays.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The journal's pages were made from old papyrus, soft to the touch.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Packard-Grams' expertise proved particularly useful for Seiler's project because she has studied the chemical composition of inks on Egyptian papyri in Berkeley's collection.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
And more papyri could still be found on lower floors of the villa, which have yet to be excavated.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
“Ithaca’s architecture makes it really applicable to any ancient language, not just Latin, but Mayan, cuneiform; really any written medium — papyri, manuscripts,” she said.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2022
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the papyri with scraps of the New Testament were to show that biblical text has survived in the same form since it was written.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2021
Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Historically, biblical writings, Egyptian papyruses and the medical texts of the classical Greeks show that infertility was a common condition and that women were primarily blamed.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2018
Now, however, German papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede has startled the rarefied world of biblical scholarship by arguing that the papyruses are actually the oldest extant fragments of the New Testament, dating from about A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inscriptions, papyruses, books time-bind the human species and permit us to hear those few voices and faint cries of our brothers and sisters, our ancestors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury—rugs, glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery—because they made all these things at Alexandria.
From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero
We provide for that by winding the mummies in papyruses, on which are written sentences, and by putting the 'Book of the Dead' in their coffins.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
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