* Papyrus 64

The Egyptian Rhind papyrus of 1800BC gives the area of a circle as ( 64 / 81 ) < sup > 2 </ sup >, where is the diameter of the circle, and pi approximated to 256 / 81, a number that appears in the older Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, and used for volume approximations ( i. e. hekat ( volume unit )).

One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 ( Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29 | P. Oxy.

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 8 | P. Oxy.

Papyrus fragment P. Harr.

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 16 | P. Oxy.

In that year the Milan Papyrus P. Mil. Vogl.

The creation of a royal cult in the Temple of Hathor is known under his reign at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai while Papyrus Mallet ( or P. Louvre 1050 ) dates to Years 3 and 4 of his reign.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St. John's fragment, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3. 5 by 2. 5 inches ( 8. 9 by 6 cm ) at its widest ; and conserved with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library ( Gr. P. 457 ), Manchester, UK.

* Peter M. Head, " The date of the Magdalen Papyrus of Matthew: A Response to C. P.

* Papyrus 2 ( or P < sup > 2 </ sup >), a papyrus New Testament manuscript

The Westcar Papyrus ( inventory-designation: P. Berlin 3033 ) is an ancient Egyptian text containing five stories about miracles performed by priests and magicians.

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The characters in bold style are the ones that can be seen in Papyrus < sup > 52 </ sup >.

The early date for < sup > 52 </ sup > favoured by many New Testament scholars has been challenged by Andreas Schmidt, who favours a date around 170 AD, plus or minus twenty-five years ; on the basis of a comparison with Chester Beatty Papyrus X and with the redated Egerton Gospel.

The verses included in < sup > 52 </ sup > are also witnessed in Bodmer Papyrus < sup > 66 </ sup > – usually dated to the beginning of the 3rd century CE – there is also some overlap with < sup > 60 </ sup > and < sup > 90 </ sup > of the 7th and 2nd centuries respectively.

Papyrus 46 ( in the Gregory-Aland numbering ), designated by siglum < sup > 46 </ sup >, is one of the oldest extant New Testament manuscripts in Greek, written on papyrus, with its ' most probable date ' between 175-225.

He also owned 19 ancient Egyptian papyri that he gave to the British Museum, including the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri and the Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus .< REF NAME =" MARRY-2004 "> Marry 2004 .</ ref > He moved his collections to Dublin, Ireland, in 1950.

Probably the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript, Rylands Library Papyrus P52 is a Greek papyrus fragment discovered in Egypt in 1920 ( now at the John Rylands Library, Manchester ).

Papyrus scrolls comprised the collection, and although codices were used after 300 BC, the Alexandrian Library is never documented as having switched to parchment, perhaps because of its strong links to the papyrus trade.

Papyrus () is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt.

These documents provide important information on ancient writings ; they give us the only extant copy of Menander, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Egyptian treatises on medicine ( the Ebers Papyrus ) and on surgery ( the Edwin Smith papyrus ), Egyptian mathematical treatises ( the Rhind papyrus ), and Egyptian folk tales ( the Westcar papyrus ).

Papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus at Kew Gardens, London

Papyrus is made from the stem of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus.

The procedures were documented on papyrus and were the first to describe patient case files ; the Edwin Smith Papyrus ( held in the New York Academy of Medicine ) documents surgical procedures based on anatomy and physiology, while the Ebers Papyrus describes healing based on magic.

The earliest known writings on the circulatory system are found in the Ebers Papyrus ( 16th century BCE ), an ancient Egyptian medical papyrus containing over 700 prescriptions and remedies, both physical and spiritual.

The execution was recorded in an Aramaic papyrus document ( Papyrus Brooklyn 13 ).

Papyrus plant ( Cyperus papyrus ) at Kew Gardens, London

Papyrus sedge ( and its close relatives ) has a very long history of use by humans, notably by the Ancient Egyptians — it is the source of papyrus paper, parts of it can be eaten, and the highly buoyant stems can be made into boats.

Photosynthesis in Papyrus ( Cyperus papyrus L .), Photosynthetica.

Standing biomass and carbon distribution in a papyrus ( Cyperus Papyrus L ) swamp on Lake Naivasha, Kenya.

Papyrus swamp development in the Upemba Basin, Zaire: Studies of population structure in Cyperus papyrus stands.

The 110-page Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical papyrus which dates to roughly 1550 BC, also makes reference to the tracheotomy.

In 1874 he edited the celebrated medical papyrus ( Papyrus Ebers ) which he had discovered in Thebes ( translation by H. Joachim, 1890 ).

" He also says that the " Tulli Papyrus ", cited by von Däniken in one of his books, is likely cribbed from the Book of Ezekiel, and quoted Dr. Nolli ( through Dr. Walter Ramberg, Scientific Attache at the U. S. embassy in Rome ), then current Director of the Egyptian Section of the Vatican Museum, as " suspect that Tulli was taken in and that the papyrus is a fake.

The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus dating to c. 1550 BCE.

The Egyptian Papyrus of Kahun ( 1900 BCE ) and Vedic literature in ancient India offer one of the first written records of veterinary medicine.

Perhaps most intriguing in terms of the pre-Dynasty XX connections between temples of Set and nearby temples of his consort Nephthys is the evidence of Papyrus Bologna, which preserves a most irritable complaint lodged by one Pra ' em-hab, Prophet of the " House of Seth " in the now-lost town of Punodjem (" The Sweet Place ").

To be certain, the House of Nephthys was one of fifty individual, land-owning temples delineated for this portion of the Middle Egyptian district in Papyrus Wilbour.

Gresley was sure that steam could do the job equally well and with a decent fare-paying load behind the locomotive and so, following trials in 1935 with one of Gresley's A3 Pacifics No. 2750 Papyrus, which recorded a new maximum of and completed the journey in under four hours, the LNER authorised Gresley to produce a streamlined development of the A3.

It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere — the other being the Edwin Smith Papyrus ( ca.

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29 is a tiny fragment of an even older manuscript, but only contains the statement of one proposition.

* Papyrus Leiden I. 350, which dates to the 52nd year of Ramesses II, records a lunar observation which places that year of Ramesses ' reign in one of 1278, 1253, 1228 or 1203 BC within the date-range of the conventional chronology.

Rylands Library Papyrus P52 | P52, a papyrus fragment from a codex ( c. 90 – 160 ), one of the earliest known New Testament manuscripts.

The ancient Egyptian Papyrus Ebers is one of the earliest known herbals ; it dates to 1550 BCE and is based on sources, now lost, dating back a further 500 to 2000 years.

The king-list that Manetho had access to is unknown to us, but of the surviving king-lists, the one most similar to his is the Turin Royal Canon ( or Turin Papyrus ).

Later, when an additional piece of the same manuscript was identified in the University of Cologne collection ( Papyrus Köln 255 ) and published in 1987 — it fit on the bottom of one of the Egerton pages — a single use of an apostrophe, which was not normally added to Greek punctuation until the 3rd century, sufficed to revise the date of the manuscript.

; the earliest record of cupping is in the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest medical textbooks in the world. describes in 1, 550 B. C.

six hundred sixteen ); it is one of the most famous readings of the codex, it is also attested by Papyrus 115.

Papyrus Salt 124 records that Neferhotep, one of the two chief workmen of the Deir el-Medina necropolis, had been killed during the reign of Amenmesse ( the king's name is written as ' Msy ' in the document ).

Papyrus Westcar is of the highest interest to historians and Egyptologists, since it's one of the oldest Egyptian documents that contains such a complex novel.

" While Enmarch himself rejects synchronizing the texts of the Ipuwer Papyrus and The Book of Exodus on grounds of historicity, in The reception of a Middle Egyptian poem: The Dialogue of Ipuwer .. he acknowledges that there are some textual parallels " particularly the striking statement that ‘ the river is blood and one drinks from it ’ ( Ipuwer 2. 10 ), and the frequent references to servants abandoning their subordinate status ( e. g. Ipuwer 3. 14 – 4. 1 ; 6. 7 – 8 ; 10. 2 – 3 ).