papyrus
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Lead absorbed as much as 25 times more X rays than the burned papyrus around it, causing the writing to stand out dramatically.
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
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
The scan is used to create a 3D reconstruction, then the layers inside the scroll - it contains about 10m of papyrus - have to be identified.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
She was very angry and threw all my papyrus out the window.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
She currently translates Greek and Egyptian writing preserved on ancient papyri at UC Berkeley's Center for the Tebtunis Papyri in the Bancroft Library.
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
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
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
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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Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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