Papyrus making workshops transport participants to the ancient world of paper crafting, originating in Egypt 's Nile Delta.

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper. But it was expensive - a 17-foot roll like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus would have cost two copper deben, about the same as a ...

You can see three types of marginal signs in the left margin of the second column. One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of ...

"In the case of our papyrus, it is not calligraphed, it is not beautiful or well done. It's uglier writing, made by someone who didn't know how to write very well. It wasn't a professional ...