Before the E-Reader: 7 Ways Our Ancestors Took Their Reading on the Go: Media
Books have been around for a long time. But not always.
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A long papyrus manuscript has rolled ends. Several sheets were glued end to end to...
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The Flood Tablet, 11th cuneiform tablet in a series relating the Gilgamesh epic,...
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Anubis weighing the soul of the scribe Ani, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, c....
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Ostracon with demotic inscription, Ptolemaic dynasty, c. 304–30 bce.
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Conversation in Autumn, hanging scroll by Hua Yan, one of the Eight Eccentrics...
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Botanical or pharmaceutical illustration, Voynich manuscript (page 99 verso), 16th...
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