How Books Grew - Published in 1919
Long years ago, even many hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, it is known that there were libraries in the lands of Egypt and Assyria.
Perhaps you know that the ancient cities of those faraway lands have been buried for hundreds of years, and you are wondering how we have found out that they had libraries.
Men who were curious to know how the people of those olden days used to live, dug up some of their cities and in this way they have learned many things.
Among the interesting things which they discovered are the libraries, for many old books have been unearthed. You would think that the books would have been ruined after being buried all these years, would you not? Strange as it may seem, some of them are as perfect as in the days when they were written; for the books of those days were very different from our books. In the first place, they were not printed on paper, for the people did not have paper. They used other materials for their books. The Egyptians engraved their stories on slabs, or tablets, of stone. Sometimes they used stone columns ... keep reading about all the books
Books are among the best treasures handed down to us by the people who have lived and died, for in them are the lessons which it took ages to learn
