Abstract
Abstract Papyrus, invented by the ancient Egyptians, quickly became the main writing material used in the Mediterranean world and was employed until ca. 1100 CE , when it ceased to be used in Constantinople. The Greeks adopted it at least from the sixth century BCE onwards. Owing to its dry climate, Egypt is the only country to preserve in any quantity the texts written on papyrus during the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The bureaucracy developed by the Ptolemaic administration may have intensified, there more than elsewhere, the use of papyrus – and later the Roman administration took advantage of this situation.
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