what was a papyrus?

Answer 1

stop being lazy and go and look it up. you probably did your homework on it

Answer 2

A large aquatic plant belonging to the sedge family. It has a tapering three-sided stem, or stock, that grows in shallow water to a height of 2 to 6 metres and terminates in a bush, or plume, of fine grass. The papyrus plant was used in the manufacture of various items, including a writing material. Papyrus thrives in shallow, stagnant waters or marshes and along the banks of slow moving rivers, such as the lower Nile, where it once flourished but is now nearly extinct. The plant’s stems are buoyant, because of this large vessels for travelling long distances have been made from papyrus. These may have been made of bundles of papyrus stems lashed together. They had narrow ends, but the beams were broad enough to support standing passengers. In 1970, Thor Heyerdahl and a group of associates travelled across thousands of miles of the Atlantic in such a craft.

Answer 3

Papyrus was one of the first means man had to communicate with others. There were cave drawings and writings, stone tablets and Papyrus! The great advantage to using Papyrus is that it is rollable and portable. The Dead Sea Scrolls and parts of our Bible were originally written on Papyrus. Papyrus comes from the bark of the Papyrus tree.

Answer 4

Papyrus was made of plant in old ancient Egypt they used to is like a paper plain paper used to write something

Answer 5

What ho Hunny,
My understanding is that is where, in usual everday English, we get the word "paper" from.
Papyrus was stuff made from reeds in the river Nile, Egypt, called the papyrus reed, shredded up
boil it, and pulp it, then flatten it out into thin sheets, dry it, then write on it.
Goodly interesting Q for a Sunday.
I must get back to printing out some stuff on papyrus.
Bob.

Answer 6

Papyrus is a plant, a kind of wetlands sedge...it was very common in Egypt, and grew along the Nile in the delta.
The pith of the plant was used to make a sort of paper. It is common to refer to scrolls of the paper with writings on them as "papyrus".

Answer 7

Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus

hope i helped

Answer 8

Ancient Egyptian "paper" they wrote their hieroglyphics on. Made from the pith of the papyrus plant.

Answer 9

It wasn't a thing ... it is a type of material, made from crushed palm leaves, that was used as paper in Egypt during biblical times. It could also be eaten, and turned into cord for rope-making. Some manufacturers still make it today

Answer 10

Still is.! An aquatic plant of the sedge family. Ancient scripts used to be written on this material which was made from the stem of the plant. Its in the dictionary by the way...Remember those??

Answer 11

A plant that Egyptians used for paper