Two-masted lateen sail crafts traditionally strung from reed or papyrus, feluccas carried emperors, tradesmen, and travelers through north Africa for millennia. Sail in royal style between the ...

Egypt was full of hieroglyphic writing on the walls of temples, palaces and on reams of flat sheets made from the papyrus reed, from which the modern word paper is derived. However, the priests ...

The reeds that lined the sides of the river were also put to good use. It was from these that the Ancient Egyptians created the first form of paper, papyrus. Reeds were also woven together to make ...