papyrus

In the past, some of the documents, which are made from a thick paper-like material called papyrus, were prised open but they crumbled into pieces.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

Wheat-based glues have a long history in bookbinding that originates in ancient Egyptian texts, which experts have partially attributed to the longevity of the world's collection of papyrus documents.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia devised a love song by around 2000 BCE, and scholars of Ancient Egypt have found love songs inscribed into pottery and written on sheets of papyrus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

Both were molded from cartonnage, created by soaking strips of linen or old papyrus scrolls in a paste and laying them over a woodblock form or the actual head of a mummy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Why could I not go in the early mornings to the marshes, cut papyrus and sell it to the sailmakers, then be Rekh’s apprentice the rest of the day?

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

Researchers can use X-ray tomography, or CT scans, to recover certain hidden texts, such as the inky insides of rolled papyri.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 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

No references to the early Assyrians and the Greeks until the papyruses were replaced.

From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl

Thou art groping among papyruses, but I have served seven years in the army, and there was almost no day which I did not pass in drill or maneuvers.

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