WAIST DEEP IN water, Angelo Mortellaro is dwarfed by the towering papyrus plants that surround him. Graceful yet sturdy, the stems stretch some five to six meters towards the sky, only for their lush ...

Print is dead! Says who? If you roll your eyes when you hear the word “paper," you might want to check yourself, because Dominique Schurman, CEO of Papyrus may get the last laugh. In the age of ...

Mohamed Saeed, a 23-year old man, complained to Al-Masry Al-Youm about the decline of the papyrus craft in Qaramous village, Sharqiya, which has left him unemployed among millions of other youth in ...

Women slice papyrus stalks at villager Sayed's papyrus papermaking workshop at Qaramos village in Sharqiya province, Egypt, Jan. 16, 2024. The creation of papyrus paper, a significant invention by ...

Weeks after Papyrus' filed for bankruptcy with plans to shut down all its stores, Paper Source is acquiring 30 of those stores in "key markets." The deal includes nine stores in New York state and ...

In a pioneering project funded by the Mellon Foundation, scholars at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich are compiling a database of Arabic documents, many dating from the early years of Islam. The ...