Abdel Mobdi Moussalam, 48, cuts papyrus reeds from his land in the village of al-Qaramus in Sharqiyah province, in northern Egypt's fertile Nile Delta - Copyright AFP ...
AL-QARAMOUS, Egypt (Reuters) - A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen demand for the paper collapse after the novel coronavirus pandemic brought Egypt's foreign ...
Ancient Egyptians invented papyrus paper 5,000 years ago, and today, one village in Egypt is dedicated to reviving the industry. But with major blows to the Egypt's tourism industry in the 21st ...
While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white ...
New light has been shed on the working methods—and attention to detail—of Ancient Egyptian craftspeople, after researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, identified what has been ...
An obscure ancient Egyptian text discovered in the 19th century led to discoveries that rewrote the timeline of early medical ...
A new study has found that wasabi—the spicy green paste that pairs well with sushi—can be used as a tool to conserve ancient papyrus scrolls. Thousands of years ago, papyrus was used to make a number ...
Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...
A new study reveals that Japanese horseradish isn’t just good as a sinus-clearing part of a plate of sushi, but is also effective in art conservation. Wasabi vapors have been found to effectively ...