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ZG_1_09 — Writing Materials — Clay, Papyrus, Parchment, Paper
The history of writing materials is the material history of human knowledge itself — the physical substrates on which civilizations recorded thought, law, literature, science, and commerce determined what could be writte
ZG_1_02 — Cuneiform — The World's First Writing System
Cuneiform — from Latin cuneus ("wedge") — is the earliest known writing system, invented in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) by the Sumerians circa 3400–3100 BCE in the city of Uruk. It began as a system of pictographi
J_2_14 — Ancient Ink and Writing Materials: Chemistry of Record-Keeping
The technologies of writing — the materials on which it was inscribed and the substances with which it was applied — constituted the physical foundation of ancient record-keeping, administration, literature, science, and
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