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

捕鱼量急剧萎缩，莎草也不像以前那样常见。

'Those who formerly didn't even own sandals now hold treasures, and those who once wore precious robes go about in rags, ' the ancient papyrus tells us.

" 从前连便鞋也没有的人，现在有了珍宝；从前穿漂亮衣服的人，现在衣衫褴褛，" 一卷古老的莎草这样记述。

Next, they`re using a computer program to look through the images in the hopes that it will be able to tell the difference between the layers of papyrus and the ink that`s on them.

然后，他们再用计算机程序浏览图像，希望能够分莎草层和上面的墨水之间的区别。

There is even further evidence of the troubles caused by toothache in the Ebers papyrus which is a text written between 1700 and 1500 BC by the people of ancient Egypt.

在埃伯斯莎草中甚至有更多关于牙痛带来的麻烦的证据，这是公元前 1700 年至 1500 年间古埃及人写的文本。

Grab your papyrus, Thoth, so you can take notes.

拿起你的莎草，托特，这样你可以做笔记了。

And the ferns, and the mosses, and the palms and the sedges.

还有蕨类植物，藓，棕榈树和莎草。

It's pretty dry and pretty stuffy in here, in fact I imagine rather like the conditions in an Ancient Egyptian tomb, which suits the papyrus-above all because of course it's dark, and therefore the writing doesn't fade.

这间屋子干燥且密不通风，最重要的足室内全黑，十分适合在潮湿状况下会腐烂、强光下会褪色的莎草。

In the following weeks, it was concluded that a further 13 papyri belonging to EES had been wrongfully sold to Hobby Lobby, 11 apparently by Obbink, two by the Jerusalem antiquities dealers, Baidun

在接下来的几周里，他们得结论，另外 13 件属于埃及考古学会的莎草被错误地卖给了霍，中 11 件显然是由奥克售的，另外两件是由耶路撒冷古董商巴伊登售的。

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

埃及人用莎草写字，这种是用高大水生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。

But that is what is required to unravel the papyrus scrolls found in Herculaneum, a Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79ad.

但要解开于赫库兰尼姆发现的莎草卷轴，这可是必需的。赫库兰尼姆是一座罗马古城，在公元79年维苏威火山爆发时被掩埋。

Penned in Greek on a papyrus scroll, the work, known as the “Geography”, is one of the most famous ancient texts on the science of mapmaking.

该书用希腊文书写在一卷莎草上，这部被称为《地理学》的著作是地图制图学方面最著名的古文献之一。

They cut this sign in the stones they used for buildings. And it was painted on the papyrus rolls used for writing about medicine and doctors.

他们在用于盖房子的石头上刻下这个标志，也画在记述药物和医生的莎草花名册上。

Other goods commonly traded include glass, which the Phoenicians are wrongly attributed as the inventors of, textiles, papyrus, wood, wool, spices, pottery, food and slaves.

他常见的商品包括玻璃，腓尼基人被错误地认为是纺织品、莎草、木材、羊毛、香料、陶器、食物和奴隶的发明者。

The luminous rays wrapped her up with her increasing distance, and the rustle of her dress over the sprouting sedge and grass died away.

她越走越远，全身让那灿烂的光辉给裹了起来，她连衣裙拂过刚刚抽芽的莎草和禾革发的沙沙声响也逐渐消失了。

Israel has managed to retrieve a rare papyrus document of about 2,600 years old from its private owner in the U. S.

以色列成功地从美国私人手中取回了一份大约有着 2600 年历史，罕见的莎草文件。

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那岩石嶙峋的堤岸摇着轻舟。

Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.

人们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎草书。

The virtual unrolling of this scroll revealed substantial parts of the papyrus, including several columns of text.

这幅卷轴的虚拟展开图像揭示了莎草上的大部分内容，包括几列文字。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到莎草卷轴的现。

The result is a wonderful surface for writing on-papyrus went on being used across the Mediterranean until about a thousand years ago, and indeed gave most European languages their very word for paper.

莎草的有机纤维会自然地缠绕在一起，不需要胶水黏合，十分方便。最后我们得到的便是一张极适合书写的光滑面。莎草在地中海地区广泛使用，直到一千年前才被替代。莎草也是欧洲各国语言中一词的来源。