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Woman lays out soaked thin strips of papyrus to form a sheet, before compression and drying at the workshop in the village of al-Qaramous in Sharqiyah province, in Egypt's northern fertile Nile Delta region, northeast of the capital, on July 28, 2021. - In the lush green fields of Egypt's fertile Delta Valley, farmers in the small village of In the lush green fields of Egypt's fertile Delta Valley, farmers in the small village of Al-Qaramus have kept alive the ancient Pharaonic tradition of making papyrus paper. In the 1970s, a plastic arts teacher taught the farmers how to reappropriate agricultural and artistic techniques dating back millenia to plant the valuable reed and transform it into brownish paper with ornate drawings and text. Al-Qaramus is now the largest hub of papyrus production nationwide, according to agricultural experts. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty