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The tree gets broken down into a mushy pulp, which is spread out flat and dried, making paper The tree is shaved with an incredibly sharp knife, and these shavings are neatened into paper There is a ...

The history of paper, much like the history of humanity itself that it would go on to chronicle, was an evolutionary process. Writing systems evolved first on clay tablets before ancient Egyptians ...