Mohamed Saeed, a 23-year old man, complained to Al-Masry Al-Youm about the decline of the papyrus craft in Qaramous village, Sharqiya, which has left him unemployed among millions of other youth in ...

First of all it begins by collecting papyrus grass, which is a raw material for papyrus paper. Grinding the grass skin with a knife thinly ..... Include water and flatten with a sticky rod. I ...

John Gaudet looks and sounds like he could have walked right out of a Graham Greene novel, or maybe written one of those classic African explorer books. Seventeen years on the continent for the Rhode ...

Once the papyrus sheets are dry, they can then go to the print shop (MEE/Mohamed Osam) Today in al-Qaramos, a village north of Cairo in the governorate of Sharqia in the Nile Delta, men go to harvest ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome When I walked into the Amon Papyrus Museum on the outskirts of Cairo on Abo el Houl ...

Ancient Egyptians turned papyrus into paper and provided the world with it for thousands of years. Hundreds of thousands of books in the Royal Library in Alexandria and Rome's 58 public libraries were ...

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