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In 1995 a 3rd-century BCE papyrus preserving an unknown language was found.
Acrostics (p. 75) are already attested in the Near East (3rd millennium BCE), Egypt (14th c. BCE) and 6th-c. BCE Greece.
Recent archaeological finds antedate Cai Lun's putative invention by centuries: the oldest paper artifact being a 3rd-c. BCE map recovered from a tomb in Fangmatan in 1986.
Precedents to the horn book (pp. 59,76) are the approximately 300 sometimes waxed or white-washed wooden tablets preserving children's school exercises (3rd c. BCE-9th c. CE), many of the later ones likewise adorned by a cross.
Another ancient oddity is a 4th-century BCE Aramaic religious text in Demotic script.