papyrus plant
Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.
Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.
One of the recipients was papyrus sleuth Brent Nongbri.
Perhaps I should ask her to write you a note on papyrus.
The fish harvest is disappearing and papyrus is not found near as before.
Over the past century, just over 5,000 of the half-million Oxyrhynchus papyri have been published.
The papyrus would also crack easily, but before long, the Romans had a solution.
It could be argued that these empires were made possible by the use of official records on papyrus.
To their delight, they hit upon rubbish dumps in which 700 years' worth of papyrus had been discarded.
They wrote their " hooks" on scrolls of papyrus paper.
Demand for papyrus became feverish, and the price soared.
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