A VALUABLE PAPYRUS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14346, 26 October 1910, Page 3

A VALUABLE PAPYRUS.

Foil THE BRITISH MUSEUM, I)} Electiie Telegranh.—Copyright (Received Oct. 26, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25. Mrs. Mary Greenfield has given the British Museum an important papyrus, namely a magnificent Copy of the Theban Book of the Dead, together with invocations, addresses, and hymns, to Amen-Ra. The papyrus is the longest in the world, except the Harris papyrus, which is also in the British Museum. . [The papyrus is a reed from which paper was made in Egypt and India before the discovery oi parchment, about 190 B.C. The earliest known specimens of papyri W-ere found in the monuments attributed to the third dynasty 3966 B.C. Many papyri W'ero discovered at Herculaneum in 1754, and by the French in Egypt in 1798. The Harris papyrus referred to above Was found in 1805 ,aiid published With a translation in 1876.]