The Leaf That Shaped Asian Writing Forever - Inky Memo
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Some of the oldest surviving Sanskrit documents were discovered in a cave in China in 1906. There were only fragments, because the manuscripts were later
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Original Title: TIL The reason most South and South-East Asian writing symbols are curved and rounded is that they were easier to inscribe into palm-leaves. The oldest surviving documents written in Sanskrit, dated two millennia old, were written on palm leaves.