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The word "paper" is etymologically derived from papyrus, Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like material produced from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant which was used in ancient Egypt and other Mediterranean societies for writing long before paper was used in China.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Greek ostraka provide good examples of historical documents from "among the common people". Many documents that are produced today, such as personal letters, pictures, contracts, newspapers, and medical records, would be considered valuable historical documents in the future.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
A conservation technician examining an artwork under a microscope at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The conservation and restoration of books, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera is an activity dedicated to extending the life of items of historical and personal value made primarily from paper, parchment, and leather.
Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers (2006) excerpt and text search; Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers. (1978). excerpt and text search; Sloan, W. David, James G. Stovall, and James D. Startt. The Media in America: A History, 4th ed. (1999) Streitmatter, Rodger.
State papers and correspondence of Lord Burghley. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar. Papers of White Kennett; his manuscripts passed to James West and so to Lansdowne. [2] Historical papers from the 15th century to 18th century, relating to major figures in English history. William Petyt's parliamentary papers, and papers of legal interest.
The major purpose of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln is "to preserve all of Lincoln's correspondence (both incoming and outgoing) and speeches with digital images, to provide authoritative transcriptions of those documents, to offer historical context for each document through annotation, and to make the images and transcriptions freely available ...