Books made of papyrus were unknown to the Mesopotamians.

人们在美索不达米亚不曾发现过莎纸书。

That's until papyrus scrolls came along.

直到纸莎卷轴的出现。

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

捕鱼量急剧萎缩，纸莎也不像以前那样常见。

The papyrus would also crack easily, but before long, the Romans had a solution.

纸莎也很容易破裂，但不久之后，罗马人就有了解决办法。

It could be argued that these empires were made possible by the use of official records on papyrus.

我们可以推论说这两个地区的王国可能因为用纸官方纪录才得以建立。

Perhaps I should ask her to write you a note on papyrus.

他叫艾瑞克•肖。

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

埃及人用纸莎写字，这种纸用高大水生莎科的芯或者做的。

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

纸莎一种由薄薄的纸莎丝粘在一起制成的厚材料，它更像一种织而不纸。

The whole papyrus would originally have been about 17 feet long and would normally have been rolled up in a scroll.

整个手卷原长约五米，通常会被卷成卷轴。

The oldest rag dolls ever found were stuffed with rags, papyrus, or hay and usually woven with colorful string and trinkets like beads.

有史以最古老的布娃娃塞满了布、布纸或干，通常用五颜六色的绳子和小饰品，如珠子，进行编制。

From the papyrus, you can learn that if you force-feed a goose, it needs five times as much grain as a free-range goose will eat.

你可以从纸书中了解到, 如果你喂养一只鹅, 它自由放养的鹅所吃谷的5倍。

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上，这部被称为《地理学》的著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，也画在记述药和医生的莎纸花名册上。

'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，" 一卷古老的莎纸这样记述。

The evidence that has come down to us is maddeningly fragmentary, because papyrus is so fragile, because it rots in the damp, and it burns so easily.

传到我们手里的证据都支离破碎，因为莎纸太易碎，不耐潮，又易燃。

The word paper derives from papyrus, the name of a riverside plant similar to grass, from which an ancient form of paper was used in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

paper这个字源自于 papyrus（纸），这一种在古埃及和美索不达米亚被用制纸张而形状像的河边。

The Babylonians we know a lot more about, because they wrote on clay tablets and, unlike papyrus, clay survives very well in the ground over thousands of years.

我们对巴比伦人的情况更为了解，因为他们的书写载体黏土板，不像莎纸，黏土板可以在地下保存数千年。

The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

发光的沙（或" 蜃楼" ）要变为水池，干渴之地要变为泉源；在野狗躺卧之处必有青、芦苇和蒲。

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.

纸书高约三十厘米，凑近了还能看到纸莎的纤维。

There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world.

在卢克索，他买到这张手卷，它后被证明我们已知的全埃及乃至全世界最大的古代数学文本。