But even The Simpsons couldn’t have predicted that researchers would stumble upon an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid with a ...

The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of Tutankhamun.

entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication.

Over two decades later, the aptly titled Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ... the galleries contains a collection of surviving papyrus, pieces of ancient paper that contain the everyday communications ...

Ancient Egyptians used the papyrus plant to make sails, cloth, mats, cords, and paper, which was the main writing material in ancient Egypt. “I published a paper on the preservation of papyri ...

The ancient Egyptians also used papyrus and writing boards which recorded laws, taxation and government business. These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of ...