Many of the papyri had not been read for over a thousand years.

很多的纸莎草纸一千多年来都没有被解读。

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In these papyri, artists have great fun imagining the Devourer - part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus.

在那些纸莎草纸上，古埃及的艺术家们对吞噬者作了细致的描画——部分是鳄鱼，部分是狮子，还有部分是河马。

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The inks of antiquity were made of soot: nearly pure carbon, the same stuff that the charred papyri now consist of.

这些文物的墨水是用烟灰做成——这一种近乎纯粹的碳，和纸莎草纸烧焦后的成分相同。

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Papyri, the forerunner of modern paper, is sheets of laminated material made from thin strips of the Cyprus Papyrus plant.

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They then applied it to previously illegible manuscripts called the Oxyrhynchus papyri, which were discovered in an ancient rubbish dump in Egypt.

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Classicists at Oxford first deployed the technique in 1999, to examine papyri discovered in a villa that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.

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