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    The London Medical Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian papyrus in the British Museum, London. The writings of this papyrus are of 61 recipes, of which 25 are...
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    It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus (plural: papyri or papyruses) can also refer to a document written...
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    Egyptian medical papyri are ancient Egyptian texts written on papyrus which permit a glimpse at medical procedures and practices in ancient Egypt. These...
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  • Thumbnail for Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
    The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP; also designated as papyrus British Museum 10057 and pBM 10058) is one of the best known examples of ancient Egyptian...
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    Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus, papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering...
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    BCE), the Hearst papyrus (c. 1600 BCE), the Brugsch Papyrus (c. 1300 BCE), and the London Medical Papyrus (c. 1300 BCE), the Ebers Papyrus is among the oldest...
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    Papyrus Harris I is also known as The Great Harris Papyrus and (less accurately) simply The Harris Papyrus (though there are a number of other papyri in...
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    Ebers papyrus, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the Hearst Papyrus, the London Medical Papyrus and others dating back as far as 2900 BC. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is...
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  • Thumbnail for Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
    The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (also Petrie Medical Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, Lahun Medical Papyrus, or UC32057) is the oldest known medical text...
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    papyrus is unique among the four principal medical papyri in existence that survive today. While other papyri, such as the Ebers Papyrus and London Medical...
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  • a papyrus roll from Hermopolis, published in 1891 and now in the British Library. A small part of the work also survives on two leaves of a papyrus codex...
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  • Thumbnail for Papyrus of Ani
    The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript in the form of a scroll with cursive hieroglyphs and colour illustrations that was created c. 1250 BCE, during...
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  •  Giza   Tura quarries  The Diary of Merer (also known as Papyrus Jarf) is the name for papyrus logbooks written over 4,500 years ago by Merer, a middle-ranking...
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    The Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and now...
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    much is known about the deity, his ghost-like depiction in the Greenfield papyrus has earned him popularity in modern Japanese culture, and he has appeared...
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    Papyrus 1 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) designated by "𝔓1", "ε 01 (von Soden)", is an early Greek copy of a papyrus manuscript of one chapter of the...
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    The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized...
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    British Museum, London, it is one of the longest papyri in existence with a length of 37 metres. The Greenfield Papyrus is a papyrus roll with an original...
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    Egyptian hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin. The papyrus is the most...
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  • Thumbnail for Westcar Papyrus
    The Westcar Papyrus (inventory-designation: P. Berlin 3033) is an ancient Egyptian text containing five stories about miracles performed by priests and...
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  • between Horus and Seth to determine who will succeed Osiris as king. The Papyrus Chester Beatty I dates to the Twentieth Dynasty during the reign of Ramesses...
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  • Thumbnail for LNER Class A3 2750 Papyrus
    LNER Class A3 2750 Papyrus was a 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design...
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    Scroll (redirect from Papyrus roll)
    roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing. A scroll is usually partitioned into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment...
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    Papyrus 46 (P. Chester Beatty II), designated by siglum 𝔓46 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus...
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  • Thumbnail for Prisse Papyrus
    The Prisse Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian papyrus datable to the Middle Kingdom: 129  which was discovered by the inhabitants of Kurna and given to French...
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    prt m hrw(w)) is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around...
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    of New Testament papyri Oxyrhynchus Papyri Saite Oracle Papyrus "Egypt Displays Oldest Papyrus, Accounts on Pyramid-Builders - The New York Times". www...
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  • Thumbnail for Rylands Library Papyrus P52
    Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St John's fragment and with an accession reference of Papyrus Rylands Greek 457, is a fragment from a papyrus codex...
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  • mathematics is limited to a scarce amount of surviving sources written on papyrus. From these texts it is known that ancient Egyptians understood concepts...
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    INDIA: Aranyaman. p. 106. "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus | British Museum". The...
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