Tuesday, October 23, 2018

The Oldest Printed Book In The World Is 600 Years Older Than The Gutenberg Bible

Erica Eisen tells the story of the Dunhuang Diamond Sūtra, a Chinese block-printed scroll dated 868 CE that was bricked up in a cave for eight centuries and ended up at the British Library (which the Chinese government is not happy about).



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