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