Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.

人们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草纸书。

Perhaps I should ask her to write you a note on papyrus.

他叫艾瑞克•肖。

The fish harvest is disappearing and papyrus is not found near as before.

捕鱼量急剧萎缩，纸莎草也不像以前那样常见。

The papyrus would also crack easily, but before long, the Romans had a solution.

纸莎草也很容易破裂，但不久之后，罗马人就有了解决办法。

It could be argued that these empires were made possible by the use of official records on papyrus.

我们可以推论说这两个地区的王国可能是因为用纸草来作官方纪录才得以建立。

They had the paperwork to prove it, though admittedly, not the papyrus.

他们有文件证明这一点，尽管承认他们没有这个莎草纸。

They wrote their " hooks" on scrolls of papyrus paper.

他们在莎草纸卷轴上写下了他们的“钩子”。

Demand for papyrus became feverish, and the price soared.

对纸莎草纸的需求变得狂热，价格飙升。

They pieced together thousands of pieces of parchment and papyrus into hundreds of documents.

他们将数千张羊皮纸和莎草纸拼凑成数百份文件。

One of the recipients was papyrus sleuth Brent Nongbri.

其中一位接收者是莎草纸专家布伦特·农布里。

That created a strong contrast between papyrus and ink, making the writing more legible.

这在纸莎草纸和墨水之间形成了强烈的对比，使文字更加清晰。

The Egyptians wrote on papyrus, a kind of paper made from the pith or the stems of tall aquatic cyperaceous plants.

埃及人用纸莎草写字，这种纸是用高大水生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。

At first, in January 2014, he revealed only that the Sappho papyrus was owned by an anonymous private collector in London.

最初，即在 2014 年 1 月，他仅透露萨福纸莎是由伦敦的一位匿名私人收藏家所拥有。

The first written records show up on medical papyruses from ancient Egypt, and we've found parasite eggs in actual 3000 year old mummies.

最早发现医学纸莎文稿上的有关记录来源于古埃及，我们也从三千年前的木乃伊身上发现了寄生虫卵。

The whole papyrus would originally have been about 17 feet long and would normally have been rolled up in a scroll.

整个手卷原长约五米，通常会被卷成卷轴。

In the provinces he owned marble quarries, mines, papyrus marshes, claypits and vast tracts of crop-bearing land.

在各省，他拥有大理石采石场、矿山、纸莎草沼泽、粘土坑和大片种植农作物的土地。

Instead of binding sheets of papyrus into books, the sheets were rolled up into scrolls.

纸莎草纸不是装订成书， 而是卷成卷轴。

Egyptians made a kind of heavy paper, from papyrus plants along the banks of the Nile.

埃及人用尼罗河沿岸的纸莎草纸制造了一种厚纸。

Namely, that the performance papyri had been collated and archived in a way that could be studied.

也就是说，表演纸莎草纸已经以可以研究的方式进行了整理和存档。

More than 2000 years ago, China invented paper as a writing surface, which was itself predated by Egyptian papyrus.

2000 多年前， 中国发明了纸作为书写表面，而埃及纸莎草纸的出现早于纸。