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Writing Through the Ages

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Explore the materials, tools and ingenious techniques that carried words through history, from papyrus and reusable tablets to printed scrolls and Cherokee syllables.

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Sample questions

The British Library’s Diamond Sutra scroll, dated 868, was printed using which method?
In ancient Egypt, which discarded objects were often reused as writing surfaces called ostraca?
What was the broad, flattened end of a Roman writing stylus used for on a wax tablet?

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Writing Through the Ages