Quotes About Papyrus

the long-scroll theory requires several improbable assumptions. The main assumption is that the text of the record of Abraham followed the text of the Book of Breathings on the same papyrus roll.

over five thousand years ago, in ancient China, mercury was used to induce abortions (although it most likely also killed the women). The Ebers Papyrus from 1500 B.C. mentioned abortions. He showed a slide of a bas relief from the year 1150 decorating the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, where a woman in the underworld was getting an abortion at the hands of a demon.

In December 1945 an Egyptian peasant, digging for soft and fertile soil near the village of Nag Hammadi in upper Egypt, exhumed a red earthenware jar. It proved to contain thirteen codices— papyrus books or scrolls—bound in leather.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.