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Saturday, 28 November 2009
 Chinese culture is one of the oldest in the world. The first books were created on the bones of the Chinese animals such as paddle deer, turtle shell, bamboo sticks and wooden plates on which characters, which is then poured ink through a thin bamboo tube. To modern times not survived, none of these manuscripts in China. Contributed to this, inter alia, the activities of the emperor Shih huang-ti (Shi Huang Di, Chao Cheng), who in 213 BC ordered the burning of books in this way, wanting to thwart the activities of his opponents. However, this does not cause inhibition of China's cultural development. Trying to make up for the loss started with greater commitment to the literary work.


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Mesopotamia PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 November 2009
 In 1845, discovered the ancient capital of the state of Assyria - Nineveh. Five years later, was discovered in the library of King Assurbanipal. Survived it, inter alia, 20 thousand. clay tablets with a characteristic letter. Cuneiform took the Babylonians after the conquest of Mesopotamia in the second century BC Used it its former inhabitants Sumerians.

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Egypt PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 28 November 2009
 Egyptian language belongs to the oldest languages of the "written" in the world. There are five main stages of its development:  The ancient Egyptian language - inscriptions from the period of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2650-2135 BC) Middle Egyptian language - regarded as the characteristic form of the Egyptian language, as used in the period around 2135-1785 BC, up to the fourth century AD - In colloquial, spoken in the period 1550-700 BC, the documents used in private, rarely in the monumental inscriptions. Demotic language - used in about 700 BC to around 600 AD, was a dialect version of the language, it was written Demotic. Coptic language - started around the third century CE and used to this day, the only stage of development of the Egyptian language, which is known vowel structure of words in a language that is distinguished by the dialects .

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Papyrus

The Egyptians have reached such a level of literacy as the peoples of Mesopotamia and perhaps even exceeded it. They had Buy food online Hotels compare discount Furniture products the disposal of papyrus, which is easy to make and easy to write, as in today's paper.

Parchment Parchment is an alternative to papyrus. Rough skin was veal, sheep and goats, which are rubbed with potassium carbonate, or lime, carefully purified and far-fetched. After drying and careful treatment of the external surface could be recorded on both sides. Removing the old record was possible using a pumice stone. In this way, the parchment used repeatedly. He was more durable and flexible on papyrus. Written on the literary and religious.

Tapas

Tapas simple production papyrus had their counterparts in most primitive cultures. Polynesian tapa material is made from the bark of various trees, mainly from Morus family. Trees and shrubs provide the bast, which wetted slaughter a hammer on a hard surface until it was holding together, more or less similar to the thin felt material.

Huun

This was the same material as the tapa bark, which was invented by the Mayans. Served as a letter carrier for the sacred calendar, prophecy, historical drawings and medical procedures.

Amatl

Amatl Amatl (Amate) is also a product of the bark. It has long been the inside of the Aztecs used the bark of wild trees. In the Aztec language means both fig-tree and the "paper". For amatl had to cook in the lime solution of wood ash. After rinsing it was going to grill on wood and ubijało. Thanks fibers filled the open spaces. Then amatl was prepared in the sun. Amatl today is produced by the Otomi Indians in southern Mexico.


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