Papyrus

Period

c. 2900 BC

Map

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Papyrus is a substance used in ancient times as a writing surface. Similar to thick paper, it was first known to have been used in Egypt as the papyrus plant from which it was created was once abundant across the Nile Delta. Papyrus was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. c. 2900 BCPapyrusThis page
2. c. 2560 BCConstruction of the Great Pyramid of Giza
3. 587 BCSiege of Jerusalem (587 BC)
4. c. 285 BCLibrary of Alexandria

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