In 1947 the original seven scrolls caught the attention of Dr. John C. Trever, of the American Schools of Oriental Research ( ASOR ), who compared the script in the scrolls to that of The Nash Papyrus, the oldest biblical manuscript then known, and found similarities between them.

Egyptians called it sesemt, and it is included in the list of medicinal drugs in the scrolls of the Ebers Papyrus dated to be over 3600 years old.

In the earliest surviving gospel collection, Papyrus 45 of the 3rd century, it is placed second in the order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order which is also found in other very early New Testament manuscripts.

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

* Michigan Papyrus Collection — this collection contains above 10 000 papyri fragments.

* Papyrus collection room, originally collected by Drovetti and later used by Champollion during his studies for the decoding of the hieroglyphics.

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 Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Lahun Mathematical Papyri which are a part of the much larger collection of Kahun Papyri and the Berlin Papyrus all date to this period.

The Papyrus Ebers from ancient Egypt, written around 1500 B. C., contain a collection of more than 800 prescriptions, or ancient recipes for the apothecaries of the time.

Papyrus Harris I is also known as the Great Harris Papyrus and ( less accurately ) simply the Harris Papyrus ( though there are a number of other papyri in the Harris collection ).

Written in the first half of the third century, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1 contains a collection of sayings of Jesus, each headed " Jesus says " ().

The papyrus is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and officially designated as Papyrus Pushkin 120.

The Nash Papyrus is a collection of four papyrus fragments acquired in Egypt in 1898 by W. L. Nash, the secretary of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.

The Papyrus collection contains about 180, 000 objects from the period between that of the 15th Century BCE and the 16th Century CE.

The Papyrus collection ( Collection Archduke Rainer ) is the largest such collection worldwide, and was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme Register in 2001.

The Papyrus Museum, located in the library in the Neue Burg wing of the Hofburg Palace, has around 200 objects from the collection on display.

Turin Papyrus refers to any papyrus manuscript in the collection of the Museo Egizio ( Egyptian Museum ) at Turin, Italy.

A particularly important piece is the Ipuwer Papyrus, often called the Lamentations of Ipuwer or the Admonitions of Ipuwer, which although not dated to this period by modern scholarship may refer to the First Intermediate Period and record a decline in international relations and a general impoverishment in Egypt.

The Egerton Gospel ( British Library Egerton Papyrus 2 ) refers to a group of papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934 ; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century AD, although the date of composition is less clear – perhaps 50-100 AD.

Arsu, Iarsu, Yarsu ) mentioned in the Great Harris Papyrus, although no contemporary source connects Bay with Irsu.

The author of the Smith Papyrus even had a vague idea of a cardiac system, although not of blood circulation and he was unable, or deemed it unimportant, to distinguish between blood vessels, tendons, and nerves.

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 ).

An additional Egyptian source, Papyrus Harris I, records how the defeated foe were brought in captivity to Egypt and settled in fortresses.

The Harris Papyrus which was found in a tomb at Medinet Habu also recalls Ramses III's battles with the Sea Peoples, declaring that the Peleset were " reduced to ashes.

However, if the ka was not properly prepared, this journey could be fraught with dangerous pitfalls and strange demons ; hence some of the earliest religious texts discovered, such as the Papyrus of Ani ( commonly known as The Book of the Dead ) and the Pyramid Texts were actually written as guides to help the deceased successfully navigate the duat.

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.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

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

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.

His writings, recorded in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, were not actually fully translated until the 1930s.

Many philosophical works were also created at this time, including the Dispute between a man and his Ba where an unhappy man converses with his soul, the The Satire of the Trades in which the role of the scribe is praised above all other jobs, and the magic tales supposedly told to the Old Kingdom pharaoh Khufu in the Westcar Papyrus.

Five early texts in which Egyptian fractions appear were the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Reisner Papyrus, the Kahun Papyrus and the Akhmim Wooden Tablet.

However, as the Kahun Papyrus shows, vulgar fractions were also used by scribes within their calculations.

Because of Posidippus ' authorship of these two poems, scholars have concluded that the other poems of the Milan Papyrus were also written by him.

After a " standing-room only " discussion at the American Philological Association annual meeting in January 2001, a seminar on the Milan Papyrus was held at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in April 2002, and international conferences were held at Milan, Florence and Cincinnati, in November 2002.

His reign is best known for the Year 16 tomb robberies, recorded in the Abbott Papyrus, the Leopold II-Amherst Papyrus and the Mayer Papyri, when several royal and noble tombs in the Western Theban necropolis were found to have been robbed, including that of a 17th Dynasty king, Sobekemsaf I. Paser, Mayor of Eastern Thebes or Karnak, accused his subordinate Paweraa, the Mayor of West Thebes responsible for the safety of the necropolis, of being either culpable in this wave of robberies or negligent in his duties of protecting the Valley of the Kings from incursions by tomb robbers.

In Ancient Egyptian most fractions were written as the sum of two or more unit fractions ( a fraction with 1 as the numerator ), with scribes possessing tables of answers ( see Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2 / n table ).

As the hiratic signs were still insufficiently investigated and translated, the Westcar Papyrus was displayed as some kind of curiosity.

Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt ( at least as far back as the First Dynasty ), but it was also used throughout the Mediterranean region.

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 is also used to make roofs, ceilings, rope and fences.

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 ().

Another saying that employs similar vocabulary to that used in Luke rather than Mark is Saying 31 in the original Greek ( Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1 ), where Luke 4: 23's term dektos ( acceptable ) is employed rather than's atimos ( without honor ).

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 )).

These novels show the popular theme of prophesying used during the Old Kingdom-just like in the story of the Westcar Papyrus.

In 1903 a fragment of a third-century papyrus scroll that had been used for an official register was discovered ( Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, now British Museum Papyrus 1531 verso ) with further sayings.

Papyrus was used by ancient Egyptians for writing and painting.

Papyrus is relatively fragile, and though used all over the classical world has only survived when buried in the very dry conditions of Egypt, and even then is often in poor condition.