Papyrus
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Garamba National Park | papyrus swamps | |
Pompei | The Herculaneum papyri: These papyri were found in Herculaneum in the eighteenth century, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (wiki) | |
Syracuse | Papyrus museum (by the end of the 18th century Syracuse had started to produce papyrus, ... on the Ciane River, of the only papyrus plants in a natural state in Europe) | |
iSimangaliso Wetland Park | the Mkuze and Mfolozi swamps with swamp forest, extensive reeds and papyrus wetlands (AB ev) |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Papyrus?
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