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They went from chiseling stone to writing on parchment.

• t-3 1y ago
  Probably more that the artifacts with the most ancient handwriting have been destroyed by time and so all we have left are the chiseled and carved samples. Monuments designed for display are going to have very clear and legible text which is hard to misread so that everyone knows that the person who commissioned it was really awesome, while handwritten cursive often only needs to mostly legible to one reader.
  • tokai 1y ago
    We have a lot of ancient hand written texts. Every single papyrus is hand written. We know how it looked.
    • raldi 1y ago
      I’m actually having trouble finding examples online of ancient Roman handwriting. The ones I can find indeed look very different from chiseled text.