Eric Siblin is the author of the novel The Fatal Scroll: A Herculaneum Mystery. Plato, it might be presumed, was a big reader, but never turned the pages of a book. The Greek philosopher unrolled ...

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Ancient Egypt was blessed with an abundance of natural resources - not least the river Nile ... massive supply of papyrus, a plant that grew in marshes and swamps near the Nile.

The River Nile in Africa is the world’s longest ... Common vegetation on these plains include papyrus, reedmace, water lettuce, and water hyacinth. The Nile system contains varieties of fish species, ...

I woke up before dawn, excited to be on the Nile River in Egypt ... have brought back beautiful textiles, rugs, and papyrus. Yet it was the river that was always on my mind.

An estimated one million people derive their livelihood from the river and the surrounding wetland, through fishing, water for irrigation and domestic use, harvesting papyrus for making crafts ...

While the imagery bears a striking resemblance to the cartoon character, experts believe it depicts ... priest of El-Ashmunein – a town located on the western bank of the Nile River and 27 miles south ...

While the imagery bears a striking resemblance to the cartoon character ... Ashmunein - a town located on the western bank of the Nile River and 27 miles south of where she was buried in Minya.

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Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus ... with stone and taking it up the Nile River to Giza. In fact, Merer mentions ...

Since the beginning of the Pharaonic era, the River Nile has played a fundamental role in the rapid growth and expansion of Egyptian civilization. Serving as their lifeline in a largely arid ...