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If you try to work out early Greek writing, your brain might overheat, sending flames and smoke shooting out of your earholes! So why is it so hard to understand?
To begin with it went from left to right on the first line, then right to left on the next and so on.
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By the 5th century BC, writing only moved from left to right, like ours . . .
but it was all in capital letters, had no spaces between the words and very little punctuation.
FANCY THAT!
In the Classical Period people wrote on papyrus – a plant which came from Egypt. Strips of it were pressed together to make sheets that were then glued together
to make rolls up to 30 feet long with wooden rollers at each end. These were early “books”. Not exactly handy if you like reading in bed without pulling a muscle.
Ummmm, hello?
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TRYWORKINGOUTWHATTHISSAYSWITHOUTYOUREYES
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