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| 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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