was the most important writing material in the ancient world. Our word ""paper"" derives from the word "","" an Egyptian word that originally meant ""that which belongs to the house"" (the bureaucracy of ancient Egypt). is a triangular reed that used to grow along the banks of the Nile, and at an early stage of their history the Egyptians developed a kind of writing material made out of the pith within the stem of the papyrus plant. At the same time they developed a script that ultimately provided the model for the two most common a ....