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Meanwhile, improved materials for communication were being developed. At first the stone and clay tablets. Then the Egyptians discovered that the papyrus plant could be used as a writing materials. The Greeks and Romans used tablets with wax on them, and the Romans developed the use of animal skins for writing. The Chinese developed a form of paper from cotton rags, hemp and tree bark by the second century after Christ, and its use gradually moved westward. But ...