'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，" 一卷古老的莎草纸这样记述。

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，希望能够分辨出纸莎草纸层和上面的墨水之间的区别。

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

拿起你的纸莎草纸，托特，这样你可以做笔记了。

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纸。

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，他们得出结论，另外 13 件属于埃及考古学会的莎草纸被错误地卖给了霍洛，其中 11 件显然是由奥克出售的，另外两件是由耶路撒冷古董商巴伊登出售的。

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。

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纸莎草卷轴，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。

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，画在记述药物和医生的莎草纸花名册上。

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出的沙沙声渐消失了。

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，罕见的莎草纸文件。

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。

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纸上的大部分内容，包括几列文字。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎草卷轴的出现。

Eventually, they began gluing several sheets of papyrus together to form scrolls, which were basically just a long piece of papyrus or any other kind of paper that's rolled up for storage.

最终呢，他们开始把几张纸浆粘在一起做成卷轴，这其实就是长长的纸莎草或其他种类的纸卷起来存放。

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.

纸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纸面。莎草纸在地中海地区广泛使用，直到一千年前才被替代。莎草纸是欧洲各国语言中纸一词的来源。

I asked Holmes whether one can therefore conclude that the Greens own around 4,980 papyri that lack reliable provenance.

我问霍姆斯，是否可以因此得出结论，格林家大约拥有 4980 份缺乏可靠来源的纸莎草文献。

Nor did Christie's possess relevant images of its auction lot of 2011 — the mixed lot of papyrus containing the piece of industrial cartonnage in which the Sappho fragment was supposedly concealed.

佳士得拍卖行在其 2011 年的拍卖品中没有相关的图像——那个拍品是一批混合的莎草片，其中包含了据说藏有萨福碎片的工业纸板片段。

It's simply framed under glass to protect it. The papyrus is about a foot high, and if you look closely you can see the fibres of the papyrus plant.

纸草书高约三十厘米，凑近了还能看到纸莎草的纤维。

It was the ancient Egyptians who first used a paper-like material called papyrus that was made by weaving tight flattened stems of the papyrus plant.

是古埃及人首先使用了一种叫做纸莎草的类似纸张的材料，这种材料是由纸莎草植物的紧密扁平的茎编织而成。

Those with a cynical cast of mind also observed that mummy masks were a great way to launder illegally procured papyri.

那些持怀疑态度的人还观察到，木乃伊面具是合法采购的莎草纸进行洗钱的绝佳方式。