Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus reed, from which the modern word paper is derived. However, the priests ...

They removed fibers from the stem of the papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus), a marsh reed topped with flowers that can grow up to 16.4 feet (5 meters) tall. Ancient Egyptians layered the fibers next ...