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Materials don’t work like that. Best case, some TINY, TINY fraction of Papyrus survived, and most of it is illegible at best. And most of that only survived b
by lolwut125 5y ago
Materials don’t work like that.
Best case, some TINY, TINY fraction of Papyrus survived, and most of it is illegible at best.
And most of that only survived because of careful recopying by the priest / cleric hood.
Tl;dr materials degrade as soon as you manufacture something with them. Your only hope long term is careful backups to fresh media.
- dredmorbius 5y agoYou're missing the forest for the trees. Printed books (given acid-free paper, parchment, or velum) have lifespans of centuries. Papyrus has a similar lifespan, for original works, not copies. (Copying is an obvious data preservation mechanism, though it has its risks, notably transcription errors, omissions, and editorialising.) Clay tablets, not subject to physical shock, persist for millennia. Much of archaeology is effectively clay-shard-ology. Spinning-rust or SSD disk drive life is measured in single-digit years. That's 2-4 orders of magnitude difference, of the medium itself, which is absolutely not irrelevant or trivial.