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In 1903 a Greek papyrus drama fragment from Oxyrhyncus (Egypt) was published in which an Indian appears conversing in his mother tongue.
On the island’s west side, the Fontana Aretusa is a freshwater spring (just steps from the ocean) with black-and-white ducks swimming in its semi-circular papyrus pond.
After a hundred years of research and the publication of 50,000 papyri in a dozen languages the price of papyrus is simply unknown, too many imponderabilia--quantity? quality? size? amount?--plaguing the few references to a price.
It covers 3,000 years of sculpture, papyrus fragments, and hieroglyphic tablets.
The work of Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) in deciphering hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone was an astonishing accomplishment, for it enabled us to read the myriad writings of the ancient Egyptians on papyrus and in wall inscriptions and revealed an enormous amount of the knowledge we have today about their civilization, which lasted for about 2600 years.