Papyrus

Papyrus is made by shaving thin sections of the papyrus reed into strips, soaking them in several baths of water, and then overlapping them to form sheets. One layer of the strips was laid cross ways to the first, then these were put in a press or rubbed with a rock that they might adhere to each other. The sheets were made 6-15 inches high and 3-9 inches wide, pasted together, forming rolls that were usually 30 feet long, though one was found to be 144 feet in length. our English word "paper" comes from the Greek word for papyrus.

Papyrus almost never rots in hot dry climates.