Papyrus is a Belgian comic book series, written and illustrated by Lucien De Gieter. The story takes place in ancient Egypt. It was first published in 1974 in Spirou magazine in the form of episodes.

An animated series was created in 1998 that was two seasons long (52 episodes) and shown on TFOU in France and in Quebec on Radio-Canada. It also aired on Unis in 2016.

In 2000, a video game for the Game Boy Color was developed by Planet Interactive Development and published by Ubisoft.

Papyrus, a young fisherman in ancient Egypt, is chosen by a goddess to become the protector of the Pharao's daughter, princess Théti. Along with her and a group of friends, and sometimes under the order of the gods themselves, Papyrus ends up fighting threats against pharao's rule and the welfare of the people of Egypt.

Thirty-three albums have been published so far:

Since November 2007, Cinebook has been publishing Papyrus in English. Seven albums have so far been released:

In 2020, Dolmen Editorial started publishing integrals of the series in Spanish. As for 2025 it has published 9 volumes containing 27 albums of the series Papyrus. The volumes published by Dolmen Editorial are:

Canadian animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle documented his experiences while working on this animated series in 1997 in Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China.