Sentences with 'papyri'
Example sentences and phrases with the word papyri and other words derived from it.
• « Numerous papyri are devoted to pharmacopoeia, and some even give an account of remedies for children who cry too much. »
• « So many papyri were used to keep records that old copies had to be unceremoniously dumped in holes in the desert to make room for new ones - enough information about the Ptolemaic economy survived in these dumps to be discovered by archaeologists a few thousand years later. »
• « To his great surprise he found that these papyri were written in the middle of the 1st century. This means that the period of the oral tradition is much shorter than previously thought. »