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While the invention of paper is usually attributed to China in a.d.. 105, four centuries earlier, b.c • o-'h “a kind of thin, fine glazed sheets which were made by felting cotton wool” were used in the Punjab for writing purposes, according to ISearchus the Cretan, a follower of Alexander the Great, and an “ honest reporter who took pains to verify the stories which were told him wherever he went.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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