The papyrus embargo and parchment

The Ptolemaic papyrus embargo, as Pliny tells it; Pergamon perfects parchment, the page that carries its name.

Geometry, Retention: A reading: a tougher page loses less to time, so more of the text survives each century.

In plain words

Pliny reports that Egypt cut off papyrus exports and that Pergamon perfected parchment in answer: a fight over the word that produced the tougher page the scriptures would be copied onto for a thousand years.

The mechanism

ROADS BEFORE PAYLOAD — an act of custody warfare produces the durable substrate the canon will be copied onto for a thousand years

How it was checked

• EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• SourcesSECULAR RECORD