Egyptians used papyrus to record their history. From LearnThat.org.
Also any menu written in papyrus font immediately turns me off to its food. From Wordnik.com. [PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Lindsay” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
We have mummy wheat, -- cloth of papyrus, which is a kind of straw. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
The papyrus was a tall smooth reed, with a large triangular stalk containing. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
Either von Kerber's calculations were at fault, or the papyrus was a madman's screed. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheel O' Fortune] Reference
There was a kind of paper called papyrus, made from a reed which grew mostly in Egypt, but this was expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
The text of this remarkable story is written in the hieratic character upon a roll of papyrus, which is preserved in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians] Reference
The paste thus arising was called papyrus in its primary state, and went through a variety of processes until it finally became "silk.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
The paste thus arising was called papyrus in its primary state, and went through a variety of processes until it finally became 'silk'. From Wordnik.com. [Mellonta Tauta] Reference
You use 'papyrus' font because it feels 'biblical'. From Wordnik.com. [Kem Meyer on Less Clutter & Noise] Reference
A papyrus, which is supposed to be "of the age of the nineteenth dynasty, about B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference
The Story of the Creation is found in the last work in the papyrus, which is called the "Book of overthrowing Āapep, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians] Reference
18: 2 (R.V., "papyrus") this word is the translation of the Hebrew gome, which designates the plant as absorbing moisture. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Du papyrus à l'hypertexte (La Découverte, Paris, 1999). From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
Jacob, known by a roll of papyrus which was found in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Wind a page of saffron parchment round the white papyrus there. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
Johannes unrolls the scroll to show the writing on the papyrus. —. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Golden Age] Reference
Manuscripts on papyrus, of various lengths, have been found on some mummies. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
This here's a scroll and the stuff wrapped around it, that's your basic papyrus. —. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Golden Age] Reference
In the most ancient known pharmacopœia, a papyrus discovered about the year 1858 in the. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
They consisted of long, thin sticks of pine-wood, tied together with bark, rushes or papyrus. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The papyrus is in fair preservation, and is believed to date from the third or fourth century. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
This lake is the home of many sudd plants of the "swimming" variety -- papyrus and ambach are absent. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Besides these tablets, Herodotus mentions the use of paper made of the bark of the Egyptian papyrus-plant. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Margaret sits on a papyrus mat in the corner, staring at a wall and hiding a tear in her dirty brown dress. From Wordnik.com. [10 Million Orphans] Reference
Among the manuscripts are several Egyptian deeds, written on papyrus, in the demotic or enchorial character. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Refusing to sell, Caswall inquired the meaning of certain of the hieroglyphics on the papyrus of the prophet. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
One of them represents a female figure carrying rolls of papyrus to a man who is seated and intently reading. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Turning north-east the channel becomes narrower and deeper, and is characterized by occasional reaches of papyrus. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
What we call history began when humans started to record their experiences on cave walls, in cuneiform and on papyrus. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To History 2.0] Reference
The Ebers papyrus, an important and very ancient manual of Egyptian medicine, has thrown much light on early Egyptian practices. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
His mother had penetrated into the papyrus a short distance the more fully to investigate a promising scent while he waited without. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
First comes a fascicule of Greek texts, the mathematical papyrus of Akmim, explained and commented by M. Baillet; a long fragment of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
These rolls of papyrus are found in the coffins, or under the swathings of the mummies, between the legs, on the breast, or under the arms. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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