The first ever printed document wasn’t Gutenberg’s bible. It was a sutra. 10s of k were printed (!). In the 7th C (!!). In a language people couldn’t read (!!!).Enclosed in statues, people couldn’t even see them (!!!!). A thread on how propaganda works, and doesn’t work. 1/10
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Some say the Minoan Phaistos Disc (second millennium B.C.), one of the biggest archaeological puzzles, was the first printed document (not yet decoded). "The Gutenberg-Jahrbuch argues that the Phaistos Disc is an early document of movable type printing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc …
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