Papyrus is still used by communities living in the vicinity of swamps, to the extent that rural householders derive up to 75 % of their income from swamp goods.

Papyrus sedge forms vast stands in swamps, shallow lakes, and along stream banks throughout the wetter parts of Africa, but it has become rare in the Nile Delta.

Many of the bodies of the water in the area are characterized by extensive swamps, with Papyrus, Nile lettuce and Water caltrop among other species.

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 Platform – The ISIS Papyrus Platform uses BerkeleyDB for its distributed object-relational transaction kernel for adaptive content and process management in enterprise applications

For each subsequent century, more and more manuscripts survive that contain a portion or all of the books that were held to be part of the New Testament at that time ( for example, the New Testament of the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, once a complete Bible, contains the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas ), though occasionally these manuscripts contain other works as well ( e. g., Papyrus 72 and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex ).

* Short for Oxyrhynchus Papyrus

* Yale Papyrus Collection — numbers over six thousand inventoried items and is cataloged, digitally scanned, and accessible online for close study.

In the text of Papyrus Bologna, the harried Pra ' em-hab laments undue taxation for his own temple ( The House of Seth ) and goes on to lament that he is also saddled with responsibility for: " the ship, and I am likewise also responsible for the House of Nephthys, along with the remaining heap of district temples ".

Papyrus were aware that there would be difficulties for the novice even before the simulator was released.

It has also been demonstrated through the Great Harris Papyrus, which states that a statue of the goddess was made alongside those of Ptah and their son, the god Nefertem, during the reign of Rameses III, and that it was commissioned for the gods of Memphis at the heart of the great temple.

One ancient Egyptian myth preserved in the Papyrus Westcar recounts the story of Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Heqet as traveling dancers in disguise, assisting the wife of a priest of Amun-Re as she prepares to bring forth sons who are destined for fame and fortune.

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.

One aspect of ancient Egyptian funerary literature which often is mistaken for a codified ethic of Maat is Spell ( Chapter ) 125 of the Book of the Dead or Papyrus of Ani ( known to the ancient Egyptians as The Book of Going Forth by Day ).

Another argument made for the late dating of Thomas is based upon the fact that Saying 5 in the original Greek ( Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 ) seems to follow the vocabulary used in the gospel according to Luke (), and not the vocabulary used in the gospel according to Mark ().

1550 BCE, named for him ( see Ebers Papyrus ) at Luxor ( Thebes ) in the winter of 1873 – 74.

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 )).

Since conventional Egyptology dated the Ipuwer Papyrus much earlier than either the Biblical date for the Exodus ( ca.

This negative view of Papyrus Ebers is exemplified in a statement by Professor Jürgen von Beckerath who is of the opinion that " The calendar on the verso of the Ebers Medical Papyrus is by now so disputed that we must ask ourselves whether we really possess a sure basis for the chronology of this period of Egyptian history which is, after all, of the greatest importance for fixing the sequence of historical events, as well as for neighbouring countries ".

This group includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, containing part of St John's Gospel, and perhaps dating from between 125 and 160.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52 | Rylands Papyrus is perhaps the earliest New Testament fragment ; dated from its handwriting to about 125.

Other notable early manuscripts of John include Papyrus 66 and Papyrus 75, in consequence of which a substantially complete text of the Gospel of John exists from the beginning of the 3rd century at the latest.

A folio from Papyrus 46 | P46, an early-3rd-century collection of Pauline epistles.

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.

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

The Milan Papyrus, recovered from a dismantled mummy casing and published in 2001, has revealed the high esteem in which the poet Posidippus of Pella, an important composer of epigrams ( 3rd century BC ), held Sappho's " divine songs ".

For a real example of the unary system in ancient mathematics, see the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BC.

A page from Gospel of Matthew | Matthew, from Papyrus 1, c. 250

* Tale of Two Brothers from the Egyptian Papyrus D ’ Orbiney by the scribe Ennana.

The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE, and the Aleppo Codex ( once the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section ) dates from the 10th century. The Nash Papyrus ( 2nd century BCE ) contains a portion of a pre-Masoretic Text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer.

Papyrus recognised the ride-height problem and the first patch ( version 1. 1 ) prevented setups from being lower than.

Since the game was proprietary software, and there were no official tools or SDKs available from Papyrus, almost everything had to be worked out from scratch, the whole process taking about four years.

This detail scene from the Papyrus of Hunefer ( ca.

Papyrus ranges from subtropical to tropical desert to wet forests, tolerating annual temperatures of to and a pH of 6. 0 to 8. 5.

Very early examples are Epic of Gilgamesh, in its Sumerian version predating 2000 BC, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead written down in the Papyrus of Ani in approximately 1250 BC but probably dates from about the 18th century BC.

Folio from Papyrus 46, containing 2 Corinthians 11: 33 – 12: 9

This detail scene, from the Papyrus of Hunefer ( ca.

Papyrus and reed rafts make up a large part of the Okavango's vegetation.

Unlike the Papyrus sims, the physics are easily modified, and a large community has developed dedicated to modifying the ISI sims.

Ramesses XI's reign is notable for a large number of important papyri that have been uncovered, including the Adoption Papyrus, which mentions Regnal Years 1 and 18 of his reign ; the Turin Taxation Papyrus ; the House-list Papyrus ; and an entire series of Late Ramesside Letters written by the scribes Dhutmose, Butehamun, and the High Priest Piankh — the latter of which chronicle the severe decline of the king's power even in the eyes of his own officials.

Papyrus growing wild on the banks of the Nile in Uganda

* " Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus " ( 1989 )