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Museo del Papiro

TIME : 2016/2/18 21:26:41

Moved to Ortygia and newly expanded in 2014, this museum exhibits a nice collection of papyrus documents and products, boats and an English-language film about the history of papyrus. The plant grows in abundance around the Ciane River, near Syracuse, and was used to make paper in the 18th century.