Part one of term paper
was the most important writing material in the ancient world. Our word ""paper"" derives from the word "","" an Egyptian word that originally meant ""that which belongs to the house"" (the bureaucracy of ancient Egypt). is a triangular reed that used to grow along the banks of the Nile, and at an early stage of their history the Egypti ...

Part two of term paper
... is preserved, but also to reconstruct what is lost between fragments and reconstruct the whole. Most fragments of literature derive from rolls of papyrus, which could extend up to 35 feet in length. Papyrus was the most important writing material of the ancient world and perhaps ancient Egypt's most important legacy; alongside it were used other (often cheaper) materials, like wood and clay (broken pottery sherds with writing are called ostraca). On these materials were recorded everythin ...