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Paper has an amazing and long history that is spread through many nations. The wonderful creation of paper in our world helped people so that they can share information and learn from them. Here we introduce to you a small glimce of the wide history of paper. We hope this information will be helpful in understanding the history of the paper products. Papyrus flourished(from papyrus the word paper came along). The Egyptians cut thin strips from the plant's softened them in the Nile river. Then, these strips where set together alined to form a sheet, where these sheet are left in the sun to dry. The produced sheets were great for writing. Because these sheets were lite and easy to carry they became the writing tool for the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They used these sheets for record keeping, spiritual texts and works of art. The papyrus sheets were similar to paper that we used today in terms of functionality, being laminated sheets they were more like a mat. Same paper products were developed in other lands . For example, in Central America during the 2nd Century AD the Mayans people produced paper for bookmaking. In the Pacific Islands , a paper was made by beating a fine bark over specially shaped logs to make clothes. Never the less, none of these sheets would qualify as a real paper today. In China , paper as we know it today was produced. Exploring the tombs of the former Han Dynasty (207BC-9AD) have shown silk cloth bearing the texts of Lao Tzu - the father of Taoism . In 105 AD, Han Emperor Ho-Ti's chief eunuch T'sai Lun has used a wide variety of materials and beating the fibre of plants until each filament was separate. The individual fibers were mixed with water in a large vat. Then, a board was submerged in the vat and lifted up through the water,taking the fibers on its surface. The fiber then left to dry, then the thin resulted sheet of fiber became what we call today paper. This became the first discovey of thin sheet paper.
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