Here Are 10 Of The Oldest Known Surviving Books In The World

Etruscan Gold Book

Wigan Lane Books: 10 of the Oldest Known Surviving Books in the World

With news this week of the discovery of what could be the earliest known siddur, a Jewish prayer book dated at around 840 AD – we have put together a list of 10 of the oldest known surviving books in the world today.

Writing and literature are thought to have been first developed between the 7th and 4th millenium BC. Since the dawn of writing an incredible array of different materials have been used for recording text, including clay, silk, pottery, papyrus, even coffins – so the question of the oldest surviving book depends very much on how you classify one.

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Bookyards Editor: The Etruscan Gold Book is estimated to be about 2,500 years old.