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Parchment or Vellum

This dimension names the physical medium a historical document was actually made on, papyrus, parchment, paper or stone. Wikipedia notes that a primary source can be "an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording," each surviving in a different physical form. Browsing by medium keeps documents made on the same material grouped together.

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1259 BCE 1
Parchment or Vellum
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1. Wikipedia: Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty
WikipediaEgyptian-Hittite peace treaty, lead section, date and oldest-treaty sentence
Quote, Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty, lead section, date and oldest-treaty sentence
concluded between Ramesses II of the Egyptian Empire and Hattusili III of the Hittite Empire around 1259 BC ... It is the oldest known surviving peace treaty.
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