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- History
- Varying quality
- Etymology
- Documents written on papyrus
- Manufacture and use
- Collections of papyrus
- Individual papyri
- See also
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- Further reading
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thumb|220px|Papyrus (P. British Museum|BM EA 10591 [[recto column IX, beginning of lines 13–17)]]
Papyrus ( ) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing material. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus (plural: papyri or papyruses) can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.