Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.

人在索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草纸书。

Perhaps I should ask her to write you a note on papyrus.

叫艾瑞克•肖。

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。

Over the past century, just over 5,000 of the half-million Oxyrhynchus papyri have been published.

在过去一个世纪里，奥克西林库斯纸质文献中五十万份中，仅有五千多份被出版。

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。

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

我可以推论说这两个地区国可能是因为用纸草来作官方纪录才得以建立。

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。

To their delight, they hit upon rubbish dumps in which 700 years' worth of papyrus had been discarded.

令高兴是，偶然发现了废弃了 700 年纸莎草垃圾场。

They wrote their " hooks" on scrolls of papyrus paper.

在莎草纸卷轴上写下了“子”。

Demand for papyrus became feverish, and the price soared.

对纸莎草纸需求变得狂热，价格飙升。

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

将数千张羊皮纸和莎草纸拼凑成数百份文件。

The whole papyrus would originally have been about 17 feet long and would normally have been rolled up in a scroll.

整个手卷原长约五米，通常会被卷成卷轴。

Instead of binding sheets of papyrus into books, the sheets were rolled up into scrolls.

纸莎草纸不是装订成书， 而是卷成卷轴。

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

这在纸莎草纸和墨水之间形成了强烈对比，使文字更加清晰。

Egyptians made a kind of heavy paper, from papyrus plants along the banks of the Nile.

埃及人用尼罗河沿岸纸莎草纸制造了一种厚纸。

The committing of words and stories to papyrus scrolls was, the author says, as disruptive as the internet.

作者说，将文字和故事写入莎草纸卷轴与互联网一样具有破坏性。

Namely, that the performance papyri had been collated and archived in a way that could be studied.

也就是说，表演纸莎草纸已经以可以研究方式进行了整理和存档。

More than 2000 years ago, China invented paper as a writing surface, which was itself predated by Egyptian papyrus.

2000 多年前， 中国发明了纸作为书写表面，而埃及纸莎草纸出现早于纸。

(Our word " paper" comes from " papyrus." ) The stem of the plant was cut into long strips.

（我“纸” 一词来自“纸莎草纸” 。 ）植物茎被切成长条。

Israel has managed to retrieve a rare papyrus document of about 2,600 years old from its private owner in the U. S.

以色列成功地从国私人手中取回了一份大约有着 2600 年历史，罕见莎草纸文件。