Papyros

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The famous “Papyros Ebers,” which was written during the reign of the Egyptian king Bicheres, 3,500 years ago, was discovered by the celebrated archeologist, Georg Ebers in 1872, when an Arab brought him a metallic case containing a papyros roll enveloped in mummy cloths, which he claimed had been discovered between the bones of a mummy in a tomb of the Theban Necropolis.

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Another example from the same mould has the mask of a slave of comedy in one hand and a papyros roll in the other, so that it was presumably a present to a victorious comic poet.

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We have in this book [Egyptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge] dozens of excerpts from magical papyroi, tomb inscriptions and other sources.

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[…] as may be seen with several representations in Egyptian papyros. The large swamps of the Nile delta with their thickets of lotus, papyros and reed, were favourite hunting grounds in Ancient Egypt. The papyros plants themselves were important for the fibre they supplied, used in the making of indispensable writing material and the construction of light papyros boats for hunting and fishing. […] Wild geese and ducks in flight from the papyros thickets are among the most impressive pictures of fauna in Egyptian art.

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