id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1089 Papyrus - Wikipedia .html text/html 4019 477 67 It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge.[1] Papyrus (plural: papyri) can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book. Until the middle of the 19th century, only some isolated documents written on papyrus were known, and museums simply showed them as curiosities.[12] They did not contain literary works.[13] The first modern discovery of papyri rolls was made at Herculaneum in 1752. Berlin Papyri: housed in the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection.[28] Tebtunis Papyri: housed by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, this is a collection of more than 30,000 fragments dating from the 3rd century BCE through the 3rd century CE, found in the winter 1899–1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt, by an expedition team led by the British papyrologists Bernard P. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1089.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1089.txt