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。

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

他叫艾瑞克•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，奥克西林库斯的纸质文献中的五十万份中，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.

我们可以推论说这两个地区的王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.

令他们高兴的是，他们偶然发现了废弃了 700 年的纸莎草的垃圾场。

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

他们在莎草纸卷轴上写下了他们的“钩子”。

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。