Prominent Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass has accused podcaster Joe Rogan of pushing a false narrative that denies ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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Hundreds of thousands of texts written on papyrus have been discovered in Egypt – ritual and religious instructions ... For at least four months of the 26th year of Khufu’s reign, Merer dipped his ...

crafted using techniques inspired by the reed boats of ancient Egypt. These boats, integral to trade and exploration across the Mediterranean and Red Seas, were renowned for their durability and ...

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 ...

Reeds were the material with a million uses ... While its power was based primarily on gold, it was papyrus that gave Egypt its sophistication.

In ancient Egypt, for example, women used papyrus reeds wrapped in linen as pads. In medieval Europe, women might use rags or cloths stuffed with moss or wool. The first disposable sanitary pads ...

ancient Egyptian scribes endured comparable physical stresses from hunching over papyrus for prolonged sessions. It is theorized that scribes often squatted on their right legs, which may explain ...

By the twelfth century BC, Phoenician traders were importing these papyrus reeds from Egypt, and then traded in paper and scrolls. The main Mediterranean port which they used was Gebal in Lebanon. It ...

But a pivotal development in the book's form came in the third millennium B.C., when Egyptians discovered that papyrus reeds could be used to make sheets for writing. A section of the Egyptian ...