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Evolution of Media

  • Cave painting
    35,000 BCE

    Cave painting

    Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First Dynasty), as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta.
  • papyrus
    2500 BCE

    papyrus

    Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First Dynasty), as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta.