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to the 10th century AD--resulting in the scroll becoming a visual shorthand for Jewish culture. To the present day, Torah scrolls are still read aloud in synagogues during Jewish prayers.

Scribes independently developed a similar codex format in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. They wrote manuscripts onto long folded strips of either fig bark (amatl) or plant fibers and bound them between

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