How the book came about?

Question

Who discovered/invented the book?

Answer 1

Written word has existed longer than written history. The earliest known writting was done on clay tablets which served as books, later of course paper and eventually a printing press would be developed. The actual invention of books or the first writer is not known.
Early tradition says that books were passed along orally, that is people would memorize the entire text from someone else and then share it with others before the written language was developed.

Answer 2

Difficult question, but the anchient Egyptions invented papyrus, the Assyrians were writing on tablets 4000 years ago and cave dwellers were doing paintings on the walls of France 100000 years ago. So I suppose that you would have to define if you mean bound books or scrolls.

Answer 3

The oldest story ever contained in a book form is by the ancient Sumerians. The story is about Gilgamesh and was written on clay tablets. This was used even before the Egyptians used papyrus.

Answer 4

In Ancient Egypt, papyrus (a form of paper made from the stems of the papyrus plant) was already used for writing as from 2400 BC. Papyrus scrolls were still dominant when codex appeared in the first century A.D.

Answer 5

my friend bill. We were high and he was like "look at this man, I just put all these parchments together and bound them inside these covers to keep them from getting damaged. I'm so wasted!"

Answer 6

Cavemen use to write in pictures on rock walls. I suspects it began there.