Papyrus is an aquatic plant native to Africa that thrives in warm and moist environments. It has a rich and famous history of ...

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THIS edition of the Moscow papyrus (complete with plates giving photographs of the whole of the text and a hieroglyphic transcription) has been eagerly awaited by Egyptologists and historians of ...

and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper. But it was expensive - a 17-foot roll like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus would have cost two copper deben, about the same as a ...