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 seen ...

In the lush green fields of Egypt's fertile Delta Valley, farmers and artisans are struggling to make a living as they keep alive the Pharaonic-era tradition of making papyrus. The village and its ...

The kitchen-sized Institut de Papyrologie at Paris’ ancient Sorbonne University is one of the oddities of modern science. In an era of high-budget research, the institute operates with a few dollars’ ...

Biblical scholars say the scrap of papyrus they have recovered may contain part of the Gospel of Mark and dates from about 90AD. The words it contains are yet to be published. The oldest confirmed ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome When I walked into the Amon Papyrus Museum on the outskirts of Cairo on Abo el Houl ...

AL-QARAMOUS, Egypt (Reuters) — A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen demand for the paper collapse after the novel coronavirus pandemic brought Egypt’s foreign ...

AL-QARAMOUS, Egypt (Reuters) - A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen demand for the paper collapse after the novel coronavirus pandemic brought Egypt's foreign ...