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The oldest paper ever found was found with the, 2000BC, Caucasian mummies found in China a few years back. The paper had Tocharian A written on it... Not Chinese, not Hebrew.- Tocharian is an Indo-European language that is at least as old as Hittite...maybe older.

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thanks to Cronos for most of these cool graphics:

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I don’t recall that. I remember something about the oldest *blank* writing paper being found in one of the Central Asian sites.

Here’s something you’ll really like:

MOTHER TONGUE
Newsletter of the Association for the Study of Language In Prehistory
Issue 26 · Spring 1996
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mt26i.html

some Tocharian stuff:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/tocharian.html

http://www.oxuscom.com/eyawtkat.htm

this is interesting, just as a sidebar:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000208.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000209.html

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tocharian paper

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