(a) What different ingredients were used in making papyrus or the "plant paper"?
(6) What advantage did the crude Egyptian paper have over the European parchment2
(c) What advantages did the parchment have over the papyrus?
(d) Why was papyrus difficult to handle?
(e) When and where was the material we use for writing today invented?
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a) Ingredients used in making papyrus or 'plant paper' were laying strips of stem tissue, crude kind of paste which was made from bread crumbs soaked in boiling water. 2. The parchment could be folded over without cracking it unlike papyrus. Both sides of the parchment could be used for writing, and space could be wasted.
b) Its biggest advantage is anything written on the paper can be erased easily by dipping it in water and since it is Eco-friendly decomposition of this paper is easy too. Even though papyrus travelled all over the world. It however did not reach Eastern Europe. Europeans used animal skins for writings.
c) This material was called parchment and although it was expensive, it had several advantages over the humble papyrus. First, the parchment could be folded over without it cracking unlike papyrus, which had to be rolled up into a scroll, making it cumbersome for a reader to handle.
d) Papyrus was difficult to handle because as it cannot be folded over, it had to be rolled up into as scroll, which makes it cumbersome for a reader to handle.
e)5000 years ago this was a fertile region and is now mostly in Iraq. The Sumerians developed a form of writing called cuneiform. Triangular marks were pressed into soft clay tablets
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