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Who named books books?

Updated: 11/21/2022
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Sabra1

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According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians brought writing and Papyrus - an old writing material, similar to our paper - to Greece. The Greek word for papyrus as a writing material is biblion and the word for book is Biblos.

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