On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Mario Mendes Jr. wrote:
>
>> Pen and paper, people!  Perfect example -> they just found the dead sea
>> scrolls a short while ago and they can still read it after nearly 2000
>> years
>
> I don't know, but I'm pretty sure they were not made of paper -- at least
> not of anything that resembles what we call "paper" :)

Papyrus and sheepskin prepared in a special way were the most used 
materials afaik.

Peter
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