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The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Gongsun Longzi: Book of Master Gongsun Long; Cangjiepian: Cang Jie's Chapter; Lament for Ying (Āi Yǐng) Bu Ju: Divination; Yu Fu: Fisherman; Nine Changes (Jiǔ Biàn) Zhao Hun: Summons of the Soul; Da Zhao: The Great Summons; Sorrow for Troth Betrayed (Xī Shì) Etruscan [broken anchor]: Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (Linen Book of Zagreb) Sanskrit:
The history of books starts with the development of writing, ... [16] [17] The oldest extant printed book is a work of the Diamond Sutra and dates back to 868 CE, ...
The 104-page Crosby-Schøyen Codex from Egypt was written by a single scribe over 40 years, dating back to 250–350 AD.
A book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books in existence will go up for auction in June in London. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex - written ...
It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West. The book is valued and revered for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities [1] and its historical significance. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Latin Vulgate printed in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz (Holy Roman Empire), in present ...
Lead Books of Sacromonte, metal sheets wired together and discovered in Spain around 1600, considered fakes; Sinaia lead plates, metal sheets inscribed in Greek characters, considered fakes; Derveni papyrus, fragments of a scroll dated to c. 340 BCE and identified by UNESCO as 'the oldest book of Europe' List of oldest documents
Deuteronomy, now the last book of the Torah, began as the set of religious laws (these make up the bulk of the book), was extended in the early part of the 6th century BCE to serve as the introduction to the Deuteronomistic history, and later still was detached from that history, extended yet again, and edited to conclude the Torah. [57] Prophets