尽管英语词 paper 来源于埃及人用的一种叫 papyrus 的植物，现代意义上的纸却是中国人发明的。而不是古埃及人。言痴英语不好，看不懂。

Who first invented paper?

A courtier named Ts'ai-Lun, from Lei-yang in China, was the inventor of paper (not papyrus) circa 105 A.D. However, the word paper is derived from the name of the reedy plant papyrus, which grows abundantly along the Nile River in Egypt. Paper is made of pulped cellulose fibers like wood, cotton or flax. Papyrus is made from the sliced sections of the flower stem of the papyrus plant, pressed together and dried.