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- Papyrus - Wikipedia
Papyrus ( pəˈpaɪrəs pə-PY-rəs) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge [1]
- Cyperus papyrus - Wikipedia
Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus, [2] papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering plant belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae
- Papyrus | Definition, History, Facts | Britannica
papyrus, writing material of ancient times and also the plant from which it was derived, Cyperus papyrus (family Cyperaceae), also called paper plant The papyrus plant was long cultivated in the Nile delta region in Egypt and was collected for its stalk or stem, whose central pith was cut into thin strips, pressed together, and dried to form a
- Ebers Papyrus - Wikipedia
The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c 1550 BC (the late Second Intermediate Period or early New Kingdom) Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of Ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor in the winter of 1873–1874 by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers
- Rhind Mathematical Papyrus - Wikipedia
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP; also designated as papyrus British Museum 10057, pBM 10058, and Brooklyn Museum 37 1784Ea-b) is one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian mathematics It is one of two well-known mathematical papyri, along with the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
- List of papyri from ancient Egypt - Wikipedia
This list of papyri from ancient Egypt includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical texts which are listed in separate lists
- Papyrus - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Papyrus is a kind of paper that was used in Ancient Egypt for writing It was first made in the 3rd millennium BC It was made from a kind of reed called Cyperus papyrus [1] This plant grows in marshy areas around the Nile river The Egyptians also used the papyrus plants to make boats, mattresses, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets
- Papyrology - Wikipedia
Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc , preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome
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