And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses. So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens.

They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. The story of this material that was prized by both scholars and kings reveals how papyrus paper is more than a relic of our ancient past, but a key to understanding how ideas and information shaped humanity in the ancient and early modern world.So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. Far from fragile, papyrus paper is an especially durable writing surface papyrus books and documents in ancient and medieval times had a usable life of hundreds of years, and this durability has allowed items like the famous Nag Hammadi codices from the third and fourth century to survive. In The Pharaohs Treasure, John Gaudet looks at this pivotal transition to papyrus paper, which would become the most commonly used information medium in the world for more than 4,000 years. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean-and the civilized world-for the first time in human history. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets.

For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information.

The pharaoh treasure