Editing Book (section)

=== Scroll ===
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[[File:BD Hunefer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|''[[Book of the Dead]]'' of [[Hunefer]]; c.&nbsp;1275&nbsp;BC; ink and pigments on [[papyrus]]; 45 × 90.5&nbsp;cm; [[British Museum]] (London)]]
Scrolls made from [[papyrus]] were first used for writing in [[Ancient Egypt]], perhaps as early as the [[First Dynasty of Egypt|First Dynasty]], although the earliest evidence is from the account books of King [[Neferirkare Kakai]] of the Fifth Dynasty (about 2400 BC). According to [[Herodotus]] (History 5:58), the [[Phoenicians]] brought writing and papyrus to [[Greece]] around the 10th or 9th century BC. Whether made from papyrus, parchment, or paper, scrolls were the dominant writing medium in the [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]], Roman, Chinese, [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and Macedonian cultures. The codex dominated in the Roman world by [[late antiquity]], but scrolls persisted much longer in Asia.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}