Ancient Egyptian Papyrus
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AvianceMyles
Last updated 5 years ago
Discipline:
Social Studies Subject:
Ancient History
Grade:
8
The Ancient Egyptian's form of writing was hieroglyphs. At first developement of this writing, they just drew simple picture to express their thoughts. Later they used the sounds of the words to express themselves. Like for Ex:" A picture of a sheep means the sound "sh"and can be combined with a picture of an owl "hoot" to mean the word "shoot," for example (only in Egyptian of course, not in English)".-http://quatr.us/egypt/literature/hieroglyphs.htm
Ancient Egyptian writing goes back very far, no one really knows how learned to write.
Until 700 B.C. , papyrus was one of the most convient tool avaliable. By 700 B.C. the Islamic Empire learned to create a perfect, much neater pieces of paper from rags.Ts'ai Lun later created the recycled version of this ancient paper in A.D. 105, using old rags, grass, and used fishing nets.600 years later, c. A.D. 705 The Arabs learned to make paper out of linen. Paper actually used wood until 1850, now the modern version of paper is produceed from recycled material
they would take papyrus plants, and soak them in water until they rotted a little, then they criss-crossed the soaked plants and mash them together to make something like paper!
About 3000 B.C. , The Ancient Egyptians learned to use pyparus to create the first sheet of paper. Unlike their old clay tablets, papyrus was simply like a modern sheet of paper. Light, yet very useful. papyrus was so simple, it gained popularity and then was used in places like Greece and China by 1000 B.C.
This is what their ancient paper looked like.
Ancient Egyptian pyparus
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