A courtier named Ts’ai-Lun from Lei-yang in China was the inventor of paper (not papyrus) circa 105 AD. However, the word paper is derived form the name of the reedy pant papyrus which grows abundantly along the Nile River in Egypt. Paper is made of pulped cellulose fibers like wood, cotton of flax. Papyrus is made from the sliced sections of the flower stem of the papyrus plant pressed together and dried.
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