How the ancient Egyptians Made Papyrus Paper
Obsolescent Egyptians made papyrus paper using the versatile Cyprus papyrus plant. This plant grew in marshy areas. Making papyrus paper was not their only use of the papyrus spy. They used the papyrus plant to manufacture baskets, boats, sandals and tables. The papyrus plant was also a source of food for the simple people. However, the most important use of the Cyprus papyrus was for the production of papyrus paper. Now you are going to see how this ancient civilization made papyrus paper; it is an incredibly fascinating process.
The first initiative involved is to harvest the Cyprus papyrus plant. Once the papyrus plant has been cut or uprooted, the greenish outside skin of the papyrus plant is carefully peeled away and the inner yellowish gravamen is sliced into long and relatively thin strips. The sliced pith is what will be kept and used throughout the paper making process. The unripened outside skin is then discarded.
Now the strips of pith from the Cyprus papyrus will be pounded. When the pounding is complete the sliced papyrus is immersed into not function and soaked for approximately three days. This will remove a fraction of the sugar content and make the fibers pliable, and obvious. When the soaking is finished, the papyrus is removed from the water. The papyrus is quite spongy and rather delicate. The papyrus is then rolled flat, and is left to dry for a while before it is cut to the desired hack. After being cut to the desired shape, the papyrus is pounded and the excess water is drained away.
Now, half of the strips of papyrus pith are laid side by side overlapping only about one millimeter. The aide-de-camp half of papyrus pith is placed at right angles and on top of the first layer, again overlapping about a millimeter. Once more the raw papyrus sheet is pounded, and port side underneath a heavy weight, usually a stone slab to dry for approximately six days. The sugar still within the papyrus acts like adhesive and seals the strips together. After the...
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About 4000 years ago people in Egypt, Syria and Southern Europe hardened a plant called Papyrus to make a kind of paper.
The people moistened thin strips of papyrus then laid them side by side on a board.
They laid more strips on top then pressed them and carefully palpitate them with hammer.
The papyrus dried in the sun and ready to write on.
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