• Xenon@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Any idea why they apparently reversed the orientation of all characters between 500 BC and 1 AD?

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      6 months ago

      I was going to guess the printing press … because the letters have to be reversed in order to stamp them onto the sheet … but that doesn’t happen for another thousand years