It needs a moist environment and prefers standing water, with papyrus ideal for planting on the edge of shallow ponds or ...

Then there are the contents of the papyrus. Although the fragment does not include the phrase “Jesus said,” it appears to be a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus.

“The selling price of paper is less than the cost of making it,” said Wagdy Mohamed, a 33-year-old owner of a workshop where papyrus sheets are decorated.

The Egyptian committee that works on inscribing Qaramos papyrus making on UNESCO's World Heritage List invited Corrado Basile, chief of the papyrus museum in Italy, also the only papyrus museum in the ...

Gaudet says papyrus - one of the fastest growing plant species on Earth - has recently started to make a comeback. He points to several projects in Egypt to restore the swamps to filter sewage.

School kids know that papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) was used to make paper in ancient Egypt. And here the plant was, over 5,000 years later, growing at one of my sunny windows in winter.

Papyrus, used as a writing surface by the ancient Egyptians, is the main livelihood for residents of a Nile Delta village A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has ...

Item 1 of 12 Mohamed Abdul Rahman, 18, son of a papyrus farmlands and workshops owner checks sheets if the papyrus is dry at a workshop in al-Qaramous village, amid COVID-19 concerns in Sharqia ...