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petalised OP t1_iv01cf4 wrote

Reply to comment by LateInTheAfternoon in How did people store their writings in Ancient Greek and Rome? by petalised

But none of them survived till our days, right? We only know about it from Medieval sources?

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LICK_MY_SCROTUM t1_ivhhfsh wrote

I recently visited the papyrus museum in Vienna. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome both used papyrus for paper, and if my memory serves me, a reed pen with a special type of ink. However, much of the documents didn't survive because papyrus is biodegradable and Europe has historically a lot of soil.

Egypt and Arabia both have tons of remaining papyrus documents from thousands of years ago, but that's because it's such an arid climate that stuff stays preserved for much longer.

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