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  2. 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.

  3. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    The trio were able to read 2,000 letters from the scroll after training machine-learning algorithms on the scans. After creating a 3D scan of the text using a CT scan, the scroll was then ...

  4. Dead Sea Scrolls - Wikipedia

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    The camera and digital imaging assembly were developed specifically for the purpose of photographing illegible ancient texts. [ 87 ] On 18 December 2012 [ 88 ] the first output of this project was launched together with Google on the dedicated site Deadseascrolls.org.il. [ 89 ] The site contains both digitizations of old images taken in the ...

  5. History of scrolls - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known scroll is the Diary of Merer, which can be dated to c. 2568 BCE in the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu or Cheops due to its contents.Scrolls were used by many early civilizations before the codex, or bound book with pages, was invented by the Romans [3] and popularized by Christianity. [4]

  6. Researchers reveal first full passages decoded from famously ...

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    A total of 15 passages were deciphered from the unrolled scroll. The first word to be decoded, the Greek word for purple, was detected in October 2023 and can be found within the newly interpreted ...

  7. Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and ...

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    Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...

  8. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, the Institut de France in conjunction with the French National Centre for Scientific Research imaged two intact Herculaneum papyri using X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to reveal the interior structures of the scrolls.

  9. Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    [13] [3] The earliest recorded archive of written materials comes from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk in around 3400 BC, when writing had only just begun to develop. [14] Scholarly curation of literary texts began in around 2500 BC. [14] The later kingdoms and empires of the ancient Near East had long traditions of book collecting.

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