papyrus
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Resting on the mummy's abdomen was a papyrus that had been deliberately placed there as part of the embalming ritual.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
It's easier said than done - both the papyrus and ink are made from carbon and they're almost indistinguishable from each other.
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
Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
Early attempts to open the papyri created a mess of fragments, and scholars feared the remainder could never be unrolled or read.
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
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 Glovatski, Alexander
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 Curtin, Jeremiah
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