They didn’t have notebooks or computers, but they came up with something just as brilliant – papyrus! This is a fun and ...

Rather than serving as a tomb, many theorists speculate that the Great Pyramid of Giza was some type of power plant. Some ...

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 ...

Paper is a ubiquitous part of everyday life, but how is it made, and where did it originate? Ancient Egyptians made an early version of plant-based paper using papyrus — which is where the word ...

From Anubis to papyrus, animals and plants were considered deities or symbols of fertility, protection, luck and more. The Nile River was, and remains, the main source of Egypt’s non-mineral ...

Representing regional talent are Egyptian furniture designers Aya Moug and Shell Homage. Moug masterminded Byblos, an innovative plant-based material that transforms papyrus plants from along the ...

The parchment was found in the ruins of the ” Villa dei Papiri”, so called because of the burned papyrus scrolls found there in the mid-18th century, many of them from the time of Alexander the Great.

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