The papyrus plant is native to the marshy borders of the Nile River in Egypt. It is a tall, stately plant, growing up to 8 ...

Here they found entire papyrus scrolls, including Merer’s journal ... food from Egypt’s rich agricultural lands along the Nile to the thousands of men working in the Sinai mine fields ...

This piece of papyrus from the mid-Third Century BCE describes a period of famine in Egypt that occurred when the Nile River failed to flood for several years in a row. It was collected from the ...

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

papyrus. Reeds were also woven together to make things like baskets and even boats. With so much of life depending on the river it's no wonder that the Ancient Egyptians gave The Nile its very own ...

Making papyrus is laborious but in fact, quite straightforward. The plant itself - a kind of reed that can grow to about 15 feet (or 4.5m) high - was plentiful in the Nile Delta. The pith of the ...