Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus ...

The plant itself - a kind of reed that can grow ... on clay tablets and, unlike papyrus, clay survives very well in the ground over thousands of years. So for Egyptian mathematics we have perhaps ...

Ruling the most powerful civilization on earth, Egyptian pharaohs would glide ... Two-masted lateen sail crafts traditionally strung from reed or papyrus, feluccas carried emperors, tradesmen ...

Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus ... 200 men who traveled from one end of Egypt to the other picking up and ...

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 ...