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Papyrus doesn't last :) You want clay tablets, buried in the ground. Looking at Sumerian tablets that would give you 5000 years.
by fatihpense 3y ago
Papyrus doesn't last :) You want clay tablets, buried in the ground. Looking at Sumerian tablets that would give you 5000 years.
- shiroiuma 3y agoI thought papyrus lasted a really long time, as long as you sealed it in huge stone tombs in the desert. I think we should build a big library in a lava tube on the Moon to store all the most important data humanity has generated (important works of art and literature, Wikipedia, etc.). That's probably our best hope of really preserving so much knowledge.
- tim333 3y agoSome lasted at least 3000 years https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ebers-papyrus https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ebers-papyrus