HISTORY OF PAPER
It is easy in these days for a boy or a girl to have a book to enjoy. Today books are light and portable . Try to imagine a time when there were no books. There was such a time.
When man first began to draw, he used the walls of his caves; later he made marks on numerous other objects such as large pieces of stone and bricks of clay. Within time, man though of using the smooth sides od animal hides to write on. You see, paper didn't yet exist. Without paper, books as we know them could not be made.
Paper was first produced by the Egyptian many hundreds of years ago. At that time there grew in the valley of the Nile River in Egypt a reedy plant called the papyrus. In endeavoring to find material suitable for writing, the Egyptians found a way to use this plant. The stem of the plant especially its center or pith, was cut up and laid out in layers which were processed by soaking, pounding, and drying into thin, flexible, writing sheets. A wonderful development of great importance to mankind had been made
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