Papyrus

Connected Sites: 4

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Connected Sites

  • iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP
    iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo NP
    Mozambique, South Africa
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.38
    60
    7
    the Mkuze and Mfolozi swamps with swamp forest, extensive reeds and papyrus wetlands (AB ev)
  • Syracuse
    Syracuse
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.59
    247
    8
    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)
    See www.giovannidallorto.com
  • Pompei
    Pompei
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1997
    4.38
    454
    8
    The Herculaneum papyri: These papyri were found in Herculaneum in the eighteenth century, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Garamba National Park
    Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Inscribed: 1980
    1
    1
    papyrus swamps