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Writing material wasn't as easy to come by back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest Quite a bit of ancient

by iwwr 11y ago

Writing material wasn't as easy to come by back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest Quite a bit of ancient writings survived in that form.

pervycreeper 11y ago
The fragment referenced in the article was written on papyrus.