War_Hymn t1_j5tkhnf wrote
Isn't it pretty common knowledge that the development of Egyptian papyrus predates Chinese paper?
It should also be noted that papyrus paper is made in a completely different way to the pulp paper that the Chinese developed. With papyrus, thin strips cut from papyrus reeds are laid flat and crisscrossed in two or more layers to form a uniform sheet. With pulp paper, fiber materials are processed into a pulp and suspended in water before being screened and pressed into a sheet.
slash2213 t1_j5tou62 wrote
If you read the article you’d see that they think they discovered paper, as in pressed fibers, not papyrus. Though it’s only a tiny piece with no context of what it was used for.
EsKayNYC t1_j5udt7o wrote
Welcome to Reddit. Get used to opinions without people actually reading the post 😂
War_Hymn t1_j5vi7p4 wrote
Kind of hard to spot when the author keeps jumping to irrelevant topics through the entire article.
Quincyperson t1_j5unpbj wrote
Posting links to “news sites” that people aren’t familiar with can have that effect
Colon t1_j5vaq93 wrote
it existed here to a degree before of course, but it's 110% tiktok culture, spreading insanely rapidly here
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