500 000 tablets recovered (and stored primarly in museums)
estimated to be 0.02% of overall tablet production
which would mean the whole tablet production for the lifetime of mesopotanian - clay tablet - is roughly (order of magnitude) 25 000 000 tablets.
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http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/Manuscripts_list.php?a=search&value=1&SearchFor=096+D%2B%2B&SearchOption=Equals&SearchField=shelf_mark
Egyptians who had the papyrus technology might have been more information enscribing productive, yet the papyrus is a weaker archiving media so little and in bad shape of this remains, however the walls of egyptians temples are rich with historical references of that time.
Invocation aux anges et à Jean-Baptiste pour conduire les dénommés Pamin et Thècle à une "fin tourmentée''. Catalogue Item - E 11036 A - Louvre
Accessed via Europenea (still in beta stage, 2009)
http://eculture.cs.vu.nl/europeana/session/localview?active=http%3a%2f%2fe-culture.multimedian.nl%2fns%2flouvre%2fworks%2f22022&lens=false
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