How to use in-sentence of “papyrus”:
+ Many of the papyrus scrolls unearthed at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum are Epicurean texts.
+ Lost and found advertising on papyrus was common in Ancient Greece and Rome.
+ Many pieces of his thirty-seven volume treatise “On Nature” have been found in the burnt papyrus fragments at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.
+ The Edwin Smith papyrus is the world’s oldest surviving surgical document, from about 1600 B.C.
+ Although Strabo quotes it himself, and other classical authors mention that it existed, the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the University of Milan.
+ Several books and articles about the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus have been published, and a handful of these stand out.
Example sentences of “papyrus”:
+ Similar records on papyrus were known from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, but wooden tablets had not been recovered until archaeologist Robin Birley discovered them at Vindolanda in 1973.
+ In 1997 Egyptologist Kim Ryholt published a new version of the list in his book, “The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 B.C.” Egyptologist Donald Redford has also studied the papyrus and has noted that many of the list’s names match historic monuments and other documents.
+ In ancient civilizations, books were often in the form of papyrus scrolls, which contained about the same amount of text as a typical chapter in a modern book.
+ The Ebers papyrus is one of the earliest medical texts ever found.
+ The Greek text was written on papyrus in uncial letters.
+ The papyrus is divided into eleven columns.
+ The earliest paper was obtained from the stems of papyrus by the ancient Egyptians.
+ The Ebers papyrus suggests that ancient Egyptians bathed often and had animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to make a soap-like substance.
+ He bought the papyrus in 1858 in Luxor, Egypt.
+ In 1824 was put in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy, and known as Papyrus Number 1874.
+ The papyrus was a tax roll, but on its back is written a list of rulers of Egypt.
+ The papyrus lists the names of rulers, the lengths of their rule in years, with months and days for some kings.
+ The papyrus is believed to have been written in the time of Ramesses II, during the middle of the New Kingdom, or the 19th Dynasty.
+ The Papyrus LXX Oxyrhynchus 3522, written on papyrus.
+ As such, the papyrus is not supposed to be biased against certain rulers and is believed to include all the kings of Egypt up through at least the 19th Dynasty.
+ Similar records on papyrus were known from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, but wooden tablets had not been recovered until archaeologist Robin Birley discovered them at Vindolanda in 1973.
+ In 1997 Egyptologist Kim Ryholt published a new version of the list in his book, "The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 B.C." Egyptologist Donald Redford has also studied the papyrus and has noted that many of the list’s names match historic monuments and other documents.
+ In ancient civilizations, books were often in the form of papyrus scrolls, which contained about the same amount of text as a typical chapter in a modern book.