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Ancient Life: Practical Papyrus

The Plant with a Thousand Uses

Ancient Egyptian farmers harvest papyrus on this relief from the mid-third-millennium B.C. tomb of Nefer el Ka-Hay, in Saqqara, Egypt, about 10 miles south of Cairo.

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