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Monster Essays - Papyrus
"Papyrus
Papyrus was the most important writing material in the ancient
world. Our word ""paper"" derives from the word ""papyrus,"" an
Egyptian word that originally meant ""that which belongs to
the house"" (the bureaucracy of ancient Egypt). Papyrus is a
triangular reed that used to grow along the banks of the Nile,
and at an early stage of their history the Egyptians developed a
kind of writing material made out of the pith within the stem of
the papyrus plant. At the same time they developed a script that
ultimately provided the model for the two most common
alphabets in the world, the Roman and the Arabic. . The task
of the papyrologist is not on....
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