Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus reed, from which the modern word paper is derived. However, the priests ...

We learn how the reeds were used for making a wide variety of essential items - including papyrus, the first form of paper - and we hear about the Ancient Egyptian god called 'Hapi' who was the ...

His interest led him to the Middle Kingdom period of ancient Egypt, a time when The Instruction of Khety was written on papyrus. This ancient writing material, made from reeds, has provided ...

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 ...

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. In the 1970s ...

Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. God told Moses that he had heard the suffering cries of the ...