In the lush green fields of Egypt's fertile Delta Valley, farmers and artisans are struggling to make a living as they keep alive the Pharaonic-era tradition of making papyrus. In the 1970s, an art ...

SHARQIYA, Egypt, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- In Qaramos village of Sharqiya province north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, people of different ages can be seen around carrying papyrus sticks from the farms to ...

AL-QARAMOUS, Egypt (Reuters) — A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen demand for the paper collapse after the novel coronavirus pandemic brought Egypt’s foreign ...

Zoe, the young daughter of a friend of mine, finds my houseplants more interesting than beautiful. She really perked up when she learned that a plant she asked about was papyrus. School kids know that ...

Zoe, the young daughter of a friend of mine, finds my houseplants more interesting than beautiful. And I agree that some — my climbing onion, rabbit’s foot fern and staghorn fern, for example — are at ...

AL-QARAMUS (Egypt) • In the lush green fields of Egypt's fertile Nile Delta Valley, farmers and artisans are struggling to make a living as they keep alive the Pharaonic-era tradition of making ...

A man shows a papyrus souvenir in Qaramos village of Sharqiya province, Egypt, on Dec. 17, 2019. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) Egypt's Qaramos village, north of the capital Cairo, provides the main source of ...