Word: papyruses
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...Papyrus Tiger...
...cannot permit Nasser to use those shipping lanes as instruments of national policy, to be turned on or off at will. Although Nasser wished to be the hero of a holy war of annihilation of Israel, the would-be tiger of the Nile has now earned the title of Papyrus Tiger...
...emphasize the soft transparency of huge alabaster jars. A small rotunda with illuminated parchments re-creates the atmosphere of paintings on tomb walls. The primeval marshes where, according to Egyptian belief, the world began and the dead person's metamorphosis took place, are evoked by a wall of papyrus, which in turn gives way to the dramatic climax of the show: the great funeral mask with its blaze of gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise. Altogether, it is small wonder that in the first 20 days, some 180,000 Frenchmen have fought their way through the lines-ironically, ignoring...
...When 12,000 Arab troops landed at Gibraltar in A.D. 711, the invaders brought along with their scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy tents above thin columns of jasper and porphyry, while within each courtyard water splashed from fountains, turning their Islamic buildings into cool cases in stone...
...bodies lay in the innermost recesses of the cave, buried beneath a growing cover of bat dung until some Arabs, poking around in the desert in the hope of finding some salable antiquities, stumbled on the Samaritan skeletons in 1962. Digging in the dung, they unearthed jewelry, pottery and papyrus, property deeds and marriage contracts that the Samaritans had carried with them to their deaths...