Artist-at-Work: Papyrus Making

Demonstrations & Family in Family Programming series
A child uses a wooden mallet to pound strips of papyrus laid out on a wooden block.

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Outer Peristyle

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Join local Egyptologists to discover how papyrus paper was made and explore the many uses of the papyrus plant in ancient Egypt and in the exhibition The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

    Family Demonstrations Getty Villa

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