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The Origins of Cuneiform Writing in Egypt

Archaeologists were excavating rubbish heaps around oxer incus when they found these sort of leather bound books like how many were there oh that's a good question i think it was 12 or thereabouts beautifully leather bound encyclopedia set. material related to anosticism which is a sort of esoteric yes christian sect Hence karl eun's interest or rather his all our interest  that's really really interesting egypt's kind of where things started one thing that's quite relevant to books is that papyrus not only was papyrus made in and needed to egypt it actually lasted really well because egypt's quite dry if you bring papyrus to europe where it's damp

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