Structures and construction Materials and tools With it, a vast supply of antique literature, history, and knowledge was lost. This ancient library was damaged by fire when it fell under Roman rule, and was destroyed completely by 642 CE. The city of Alexandria retained preeminence for its records and scrolls with its library. With this ability, writing and record-keeping, the Egyptians developed one of the – if not the – first decimal system. However, this is a myth parchment had been in use in Anatolia and elsewhere long before the rise of Pergamon.Įgyptian hieroglyphs, a phonetic writing system, served as the basis for the Phoenician alphabet from which later alphabets, such as Hebrew, Greek, and Latin were derived.
According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder ( Natural History records, xiii.21), as a result of this, parchment was invented under the patronage of Eumenes II of Pergamon to build his rival library at Pergamon. The establishment of the Library of Alexandria limited the supply of papyrus for others. Papyrus was produced in Egypt as early as 3000 BC and was sold to ancient Greece and Rome. The word paper comes from the Greek term for the ancient Egyptian writing material called papyrus, which was formed from beaten strips of papyrus plants. A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is written and drawn on papyrus
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