Word: papyrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven years ago (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949), archeologists have been looking with renewed diligence for more. Seventeen months ago, in a cave at Wadi Qumran, in Jordan, a band of diggers found a stone writing table almost 2,000 years old, and strewn about it scraps of leather and papyrus, enough to fill several bushel baskets. The Hebrew script on the papyrus was minuscule,'and many fragments could be read only with the help of an infrared camera. But the texts, when examined, turned out to cover almost half of the Old Testament. Their date, from...
...words for the same plant. The botanically innocent scholars who produced the King James Version turned aspens into mulberries and dill into anise. The sycomore that Zacchaeus climbed to catch a glimpse of Jesus was undoubtedly a fig tree.* The bulrushes that sheltered the infant Moses were almost certainly papyrus. Many plants that appear in the King James Version never grew in Palestine. Rye, for instance, is a cold-climate crop. The "rie" of the Bible is probably spelt, a primitive relative of wheat...
Highlights of the exhibit: ¶ A 4th century papyrus fragment in Greek containing a passage from the Book of Isaiah...
Running tandem with the Bogart-Hepburn travelling tryst is some of the most spectacular scenery Africa possesses. Waterfalls, steaming jungles, and endless papyrus marshes are caught with such remarkable realism that when Bogie and Katic are attacked by a swarm of insects, everybody in the theatre started scratching. The jungle is definitely one of the actors in The African Queen, and thanks to the Technicolor camera and its own loathsome inhabitants, it does a very fine...