papyrus

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

He obtained papyrus and reed pens from Egypt, along with traditional lampblack ink from Japan.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Once the writing was finished, Seiler, an affiliate of Berkeley SETI, rolled up the papyrus, sealed it inside a container, placed it in a high-temperature furnace, and burned it until it was thoroughly carbonized.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The papyrus underwent detailed study during a second research campaign held in January and February 2026.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

To cover it he waded a little farther, pushed aside the last fringe of papyrus, pretending to study the bright colored sails that dotted the river.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Located about 190 kilometers south of Cairo near the Bahr Yussef branch of the Nile, the site has long been known for preserving thousands of ancient papyri.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Deciphering the papyri, Sommerschield says, could “revolutionize our knowledge of ancient history and literature.”

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

In another prominent case, the Greens bought about 150 papyrus fragments in 2010–13 from Dirk Obbink, a professor who most probably stole them from the collection of papyri he oversaw at Oxford University.

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

After Hiram's departure the heir shut himself up in the most remote chamber under pretext of reading sacred papyruses.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin