Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.

们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草纸书。

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。

The fish harvest is disappearing and papyrus is not found near as before.

捕鱼量急剧萎缩，纸莎草也不像以前见。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎草卷轴的出现。

One of the recipients was papyrus sleuth Brent Nongbri.

其中一位接收者是莎草纸专家布伦特·农布里。

They had the paperwork to prove it, though admittedly, not the papyrus.

他们有文件证明这一点，尽管承认他们没有这个莎草纸。

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

埃及用纸莎草写字，这种纸是用高大水生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。

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，罗马就有解决办法。

To their delight, they hit upon rubbish dumps in which 700 years' worth of papyrus had been discarded.

令他们高兴的是，他们偶然发现 700 年的纸莎草的垃圾场。

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。

They wrote their " hooks" on scrolls of papyrus paper.

他们在莎草纸卷轴上写下他们的“钩子”。

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。

Papyrus was also easy to erase.

纸莎草纸也很容易擦除。

Papyri containing all kinds of records, not just medical information, are stored here.

包含各种记录的纸莎草纸， 而不仅仅是医疗信息，都存放在这里。

The highest are set in bleak, rough bowls, scantily fringed with brown and yellow sedges.

最高的坐落在荒凉、粗糙的碗状物中， 边缘稀疏地长着棕色和黄色的莎草。

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

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。

Now they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes, and now they paddled the light canoe along your rocky shores.

现在，他们将高贵的腿浸在属于你们的莎草丛生的湖里，现在他们沿着你脚下岩石嶙峋的堤岸摇着轻舟。

The committing of words and stories to papyrus scrolls was, the author says, as disruptive as the internet.

作者说，将文字和故事写入莎草纸卷轴与互联网一具有破坏性。

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。

Papyrus is a thick material made from thin strands of papyrus plant stem glued together that's more like a fabric than a paper.

纸莎草是一种由薄薄的纸莎草植物茎丝粘在一起制成的厚材料，它更像一种织物而不是纸。