The climate of Egypt, especially the desert, is excellent for preserving the writing material created from the local papyrus plant and thus excavations at Egyptian sites such as Oxyrhynchus and ...

Making papyrus is laborious but in fact, quite straightforward. The plant itself - a kind of reed ... Is this the Ancient Egyptian version of our craze for Sudoku? The answer is ...

The significance of the blue lotus was confirmed in 1922 when Howard Carter found blue lotus petals covering the body of ...