Papyrus as we all learned as fairly
small children in school was the first kind of paper (the word
itself comes from papyrus). Made from the split and hammered
stems of a reed that grows on the banks of the Nile, it still
made in the traditional way for tourist souvenirs.
If you go to the Egyptian museum
in Cairo, you will see papyrus that are recognisably similar
to these except that those are 2000 years old or more. So these
get my vote as a good tourist souvenir as being pretty close
to what they are trying to be. Computer technology means that
they can be printed out in durable inks on traditionally made
papyrus in the ancient way. the main thing you have to be aware
of is not to buy too many - how many frames and walls in your
house are you really going to cover?
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