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.

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.

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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.

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The papyrus plant's stem was also used to create paper, sails, linen, mats, and ropes. Ancient Egyptians utilized papyrus paper as their primary form of writing, which the Greeks later adopted.