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Baghdad's Paper Mills Fuel an Explosion of Scholarship
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Baghdad's Paper Mills Fuel an Explosion of Scholarship
Cheap, abundant paper let Abbasid Baghdad build libraries and translation centers at a scale parchment and papyrus never allowed.
By the end of the 8th century, paper mills were operating in Baghdad, the Abbasid capital. Unlike parchment or papyrus, paper could be produced locally wherever water was available, making it dramatically cheaper. Baghdad's paper supply underpinned the translation movement and libraries later idealized as the House of Wisdom.
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