Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.

人们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草纸书。

One of the recipients was papyrus sleuth Brent Nongbri.

其中一位接收者是莎草纸专家布伦特·农布里。

Grab your papyrus, Thoth, so you can take notes.

拿起你的纸莎草纸，托特，样你可以做笔记了。

The fish harvest is disappearing and papyrus is not found near as before.

捕鱼量急剧萎缩，纸莎草也不像以前那样常见。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎草卷轴的出现。

At present, just over 20 papyri are displayed on the museum's website, out of 5,000.

目前，博物馆网站上展示的纸莎草纸只有 20 多张，总数有 5000 张。

The virtual unrolling of this scroll revealed substantial parts of the papyrus, including several columns of text.

幅卷轴的虚拟展开图像揭示了莎草纸上的大部分内容，包括几列文字。

It could be argued that these empires were made possible by the use of official records on papyrus.

我们可以推两地区的王国可能是因用纸草来作官方纪录才得以建立。

Whoever allegedly stole and sold the papyri " broke that trust, and thumbed their nose at the system, " she said.

她，无是谁涉嫌偷窃并出售纸莎草纸，“都打破了种信任，对种（信任）体系嗤之以鼻”。

The papyrus would also crack easily, but before long, the Romans had a solution.

纸莎草也很容易破裂，但不久之后，罗马人就有了解决办法。

Archimedes' writings were originally done on papyrus scrolls.

阿基米德的着作最初是在莎草纸卷轴上完成的。

Demand for papyrus became feverish, and the price soared.

对纸莎草纸的需求变得狂热，价格飙升。

What is a woman in comparison with an Alexandrian papyrus?

与亚历山大纸莎草纸相比， 女人算么？

This was extremely fortunate, since later on, the original papyrus scrolls disappeared.

非常幸运, 因后来原始的莎草纸卷轴消失了。

Admirers performed Sappho cover songs and committed her poetry to papyrus, parchment, and pottery.

仰慕者演唱了萨福的翻唱歌曲，并将她的诗歌献给纸莎草纸、羊皮纸和陶器。

They pieced together thousands of pieces of parchment and papyrus into hundreds of documents.

他们将数千张羊皮纸和莎草纸拼凑成数百份文件。

Papyri containing all kinds of records, not just medical information, are stored here.

包含各种记录的纸莎草纸， 而不仅仅是医疗信息，都存放在里。

That created a strong contrast between papyrus and ink, making the writing more legible.

在纸莎草纸和墨水之间形成了强烈的对比，使文字更加清晰。

The Egyptians wrote on papyrus, a kind of paper made from the pith or the stems of tall aquatic cyperaceous plants.

埃及人用纸莎草写字，种纸是用高大水生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。

Paper made from papyrus, however, was difficult to make and expensive.

然而，用纸莎草制成的纸制造起来很困难，而且价格昂贵。