Papyrus is an aquatic plant native to Africa that thrives in warm and moist environments. It has a rich and famous history of being used as paper, growing in large populations along the Nile in Egypt.

Papyrus is a type of writing support used mostly in Egypt and parts of the Middle East. Papyrus comes from the Papyrus plant. The plant has been used for over a thousand years, and it still exists.

Papyrus (and possibly paper) The versatile papyrus plant has parts that can be eaten and a stem that can be used to make boats, as well as the earliest writing surfaces.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Storm Team 4’s meteorologist Liz McGiffin caught up with Alyssa Cassabaum-Smith, a scientist at COSI, to do an activity similar to how ancient Egyptians made paper. In ...

Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number of items, such as sails, boats and baskets. It was also a writing material, and rare ancient texts were often composed on papyrus.

This plant, revered in ancient Egypt, is regaining attention today for its healing, ... When archaeologists began translating medical papyri like the Ebers Papyrus from around 1550 BCE, ...

The climate of Egypt, especially the desert, is excellent for preserving the writing material created from the local papyrus plant and thus excavations at Egyptian sites such as Oxyrhynchus and ...

Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word "paper" comes from. They removed fibers from the stem of the papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus ...

The unique disinfecting strategy could help archaeologists and museums preserve documents written on paper made from the papyrus plant, a material used for thousands of years in ancient Egypt ...