Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends is still considered to be one of the finest racing games of all time. When Papyrus Racing Games released its final installment in the storied NASCAR Racing series in ...
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A 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus puts "giants" back on the measuring stick
And when some old scribe tells his tale of foes by cubit, and the figures would not remain in the world of abstraction? The British Museum contains Papyrus Anastasi I, a training text of the New ...
Why do readers love books? For wisdom and wit, the lift of comedy and the noble pain of tragedy; for advice, comfort and entertainment. But content and sentiment apart, they are loved as objects. Most ...
Wasabi vapours are potent enough to kill fungi growing on painted papyrus fragments – all without damaging the fragile artefacts or altering the appearance of their vivid colours. Fungus can damage ...
Well-known as a writing material in ancient Egypt, papyrus had many more uses, according to ecologist Gaudet in this encyclopedic history of the swamp-dwelling plant. Indeed, Gaudet maintains that ...
In October 1731, a fire at London’s Ashburnham House destroyed portions of the Old Royal Library and the Cotton library. Fortunately, the Old Royal Library’s most precious object, the Codex ...
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