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What Is the Oldest Book in the World?

According to reports, the oldest book in the world is estimated at about 2,500 years old. If you think it's the Gutenberg Bible, guess again.

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    At Bulgaria's National Museum of History, there lives a book comprising six pages of beaten 24-carat gold covered with Etruscan script, one of the …

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