It all started 5000 years ago. That and at the Nile river ally in Egypt. Cyperous Papyrus was the name of the marsh grass that grew there. Egyptians cut thin strips from the plant's stem, softened them in the muddy waters of the Nile and the strips were then layered in right angles to form a kind of mat. The mat was then pounded into a thin sheet and left in the sun to dry. The resulting sheets were ideal for writing on. Since they were also lightweight and portable, they became the writing medium of choice of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans for record keeping, spiritual texts and works of art.
Cyperous Papyrus
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This time, the source of paper dates back to the 2nd century BC in China. The tombs of the former Han Dynasty were excavated and revealed silk cloth containing the texts of Lao Tzu - the father of Taoism. In 105 AD, Han Emperor Ho-Ti's chief eunuch T'sai Lun experimented with a wide variety of materials and refined the process of macerating the fibre of plants. After a number of processes, T'sai Lun became the patron saint of paper making.
Hemp wrapping paper
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper
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