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03636aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 9146FA5E0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190103010119 008 180219s2018 nyuabf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 168177853X 020 $a 9781681778532 035 $a (OCoLC)1023547500 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d NPC $d SRC $d JQM $d OCLCF $d CZA $d GO4 $d IGA $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 14 $a Z110 P36 G38 2018 100 1 $a Gaudet, John J., $e author. 245 14 $a The pharaoh's treasure : $b the origin of paper and the rise of Western civilization / $c John Gaudet. 250 $a First Pegasus books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2018. 300 $a xxi, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Guardian of immortality. The inspector puts pen to paper and makes history ; Prisse, like Moses, carries home stone tablets and paper scrolls ; The undertaker's special and the world's first bestseller ; The book of the dead, guardian of immortality ; Papyrus paper, your ticket to paradise ; The sands of the Nile give up their treasures ; The affair of the oranges ; The floodgates open -- Egypt, papermaker to the world. The birth of Memphis and paper ; A gift from the gods ; The monopoly ; Growing and managing papyrus for paper ; The emperor and the lewd papermaker ; Taking on the world, and leaving a legacy -- The enemy of oblivion. Early libraries, paper, and the writing business ; A library to end all libraries and the sweet smell of history ; The Romans and the book trade ; Roman libraries ; Those precious, tender-hearted scrolls ; Saving the day ; Media one makes its mark in the world ; The last bastion, the church of Rome ; Constantinople and the long goodbye ; End of the road and the battle of the Talas river ; The myster of the disappearing plant ; The pharaoh's own conquers the Vatican ; The road back ; The road ahead. 520 $a For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean--and the civilized world--for the first time in human history. In The Pharaoh's Treasure, John Gaudet looks at this pivotal transition to papyrus paper, which would become the most commonly used information medium in the world for more than 4,000 years. Far from fragile, papyrus paper is an especially durable writing surface; papyrus books and documents in ancient and medieval times had a usable life of hundreds of years, and this durability has allowed items like the famous Nag Hammadi codices from the third and fourth century to survive. The story of this material that was prized by both scholars and kings reveals how papyrus paper is more than a relic of our ancient past, but a key to understanding how ideas and information shaped humanity in the ancient and early modern world. 650 0 $a Paper $x History. 650 0 $a Papermaking $x History. 650 0 $a Manuscripts (Papyri) $x History. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213012505.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20191002013828.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402022127.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190307010047.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9146FA5E0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search