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  2. Recorded history - Wikipedia

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    Linear A etched on tablets found in Akrotiri, Santorini Palenque Glyphs that has a total of 92 glyphs on the tablet. Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method.

  3. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [1] ... Written documents became essential for the accumulation and accounting of wealth by ...

  4. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    hand-written Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary and Creed [169] Katekizmas (1547) by Martynas Mažvydas was the first printed book in Lithuanian. 1517: Belarusian: Psalter of Francysk Skaryna: 1521: Romanian: Neacșu's Letter: Cyrillic orthographic manual of Constantin Kostentschi from 1420 documents earlier written usage. [170]

  5. History of books - Wikipedia

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    The history of books starts with the development of writing, ... Cuneiform was written in different languages, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, and Greek, for more than ...

  6. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. History of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    In January 2001, Wikipedia ran on UseModWiki, written in Perl by Clifford Adams. The server still runs on Linux, although the original text was stored in files rather than in a database. Articles were named with the CamelCase convention. In January 2002, "Phase II" of the wiki software powering Wikipedia was introduced, replacing the older ...

  8. History - Wikipedia

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    History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts or traditional oral histories, art and material artifacts, and ecological ...

  9. Historiography - Wikipedia

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    The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom.(Jacob de Wit,1754)Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.