Many of the papyri had not been read for over a thousand years.

很多的纸莎草纸一千多年来都没有被解读。

In these papyri, artists have great fun imagining the Devourer - part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus.

在那些纸莎草纸上，古埃及的艺术家们对吞噬者作了细致的描画——部分是鳄鱼，部分是狮子，还有部分是河马。

The inks of antiquity were made of soot: nearly pure carbon, the same stuff that the charred papyri now consist of.

这些文物的墨水是用烟灰做成——这一种近乎纯粹的碳，和纸莎草纸烧焦后的成分相同。

"We were given about half an hour to look into what were effectively three shoe boxes. Inside were papyri wrapped in newspaper," says Emmel.

他们给了我们大概半小时看了装满三个鞋盒的东西，一些裹在报纸里的纸草文本。

What came to be called the Villa of the Papyri contained a library of perhaps 2,000 books, the only such collection known to have been preserved from antiquity.

它的挖掘打开了一个文学的时间胶囊。 帕里比庄园是一座拥有大约2000本书的图书馆，这些仅有的收藏保护了文物免遭毁灭。

Although researchers aren't sure when people first added medicinal herbs to their wine, the earliest written evidence of such wines in ancient Egypt comes from papyri dating to about 1850 B.C.E..

虽然研究者不能确定人类第一次将药物加入酒中的时间，但古埃及此类药酒的最早书面证据是一份大约公元前1850年的纸莎草卷。