History of books
Sumerian language cuneiform script clay tablet, 2400–2200 BC.
Antiquity
When writing systems were invented in ancient civilizations, nearly
everything that could be written upon stone, clay, tree bark, metal
sheets was used for writing. Alphabetic writing emerged in Egypt
around 1800 BC. At first the words were not separated from each
other scripta continua and there was no punctuation. Texts were
written from right to left, left to right, and even so that
alternate lines read in opposite directions. The technical term for
this type of writing is boustrophedon, which means literally
ox-turning for the way a farmer drives an ox to plough his fields
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