Pharaonic designs based on papyrus texts from the Book of the Dead and other ancient Egyptian art.

In papyrus texts from the Ptolemaic period onwards, numeric sampi occurs with some regularity.

Imhotep in the 3rd dynasty is credited as the original author of the papyrus text, and founder of ancient Egyptian medicine.

The standard practice of childbirth in ancient Egypt has long been known from papyrus texts.

Conservationists were tasked with perserving the cartonnages and publishing all Greek papyrus texts derived from them.

A second, more extensive papyrus text was purchased in Egypt by an American missionary in 1890.

Those working on the transfer of the ancient papyrus texts to parchment dedicated a great deal of time and attention to prioritizing what warranted being preserved.

For papyrus texts that were not translatable, the group attempted to preserve them from decay by encasing them in parchment.

The first recorded study of the brain and its functions was from a papyrus text written by the ancient Egyptians during the 17th century BCE.

Ancient papyrus texts show that dowries typically included land and slaves but could also include jewelry, toilet articles (used to make women more attractive, such as mirrors), and clothing.