Throughout history, mankind has committed its
greatest thoughts to writing. The power of the
written word is vast: it allows ideas, emotions,
even passions, to transcend time, to pass
unaltered from one person to another, from one
generation to the next. Human society itself is
erected on a solid foundation of documents:
edicts, declarations, holy books. The reed paper,
papyrus, was made for thousands of years in
Egypt, from the time of the pharaohs, through
the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, and on into
the Islamic era. To hold this manuscript today, to
decipher its message, is to communicate directly
with a vanished world.
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