The Origins of Writing in Ancient Egypt

Papyrus was the preferred material for writing in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians also used animal hides, which would constitute the earliest known forms of parchment. Another form of writing that may have emerged in Greek lands during the 1st millennium BCE was the use of wax tablets. A codex is one of the first types of proper book, and they were produced by the Romans. They would collate pieces of parchment or papyrus to form these codices. This could be an alternative to the scroll, which may not have been easy to produce for lengthy pieces of work. In a similar way, the Phoenician alphabet spread eastwards with Aramayan script. An early evolution of the Phoen