The result is a wonderful surface for writing on - papyrus went on being used across the Mediterranean until about a thousand years ago, and indeed gave most European languages their very word for ...
The writing on them is often obscured by the paste ... the cases intact but allows historians to read what is on the papyrus. According to Dr Kathryn Piquette, of University College London ...
Initially dismissed as a shopping list, the ancient papyrus reveals early stories of Jesus's childhood miracles.
The Derveni papyrus, an ancient Greek papyrus roll, is considered to be Europe's oldest surviving readable manuscript.
The result is a wonderful surface for writing on - papyrus went on being used across the Mediterranean until about a thousand years ago, and indeed gave most European languages their very word for ...