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。

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常见。

One of the recipients was papyrus sleuth Brent Nongbri.

其中一位接收者是莎草纸专家布伦·农布里。

And the ferns, and the mosses, and the palms and the sedges.

还有蕨类植物，苔藓，棕榈树和莎草。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎草卷轴的出现。

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

拿起你的纸莎草纸，托，你可以做笔记了。

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

埃人用纸莎草写字，种纸是用生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。

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 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。

" My source is a papyrologist who worked on the manuscript, a man whose reputation is unimpeachable."

“我的消息来源是一位曾参与份手稿工作的莎草纸专家，他的声誉毋庸置疑。”

Papyrus ceased to be used to make mummy cartonnage in around AD14.

约在公元 14 年，纸莎草就不再被用来制作木乃伊覆盖板了。

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。

All the results were assessed by papyrologists before the prizes were awarded.

在颁奖之前，所有结果均由纸莎草学家评估。

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

非常幸运, 因为后来原始的莎草纸卷轴消失了。

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。

What is a woman in comparison with an Alexandrian papyrus?

与亚历山纸莎草纸相比， 女人算什么？

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。

It’s believed purple nut sedge may have the ability to inhibit the growth of Streptococcus mutans.

人们认为紫色坚果莎草可能具有抑制变形链球菌生长的能力。

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。

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。