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The Gutenberg Press with its moveable type.

Illustration of a printing press and a composing stick from the first edition (1768–71) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, plate CXLVII, figure 1.

Inside Lovedale Press, the printing department that the Lovedale Missionary Institute opened in 1861.

An image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Illustration of a printing press and a composing stick from the first edition (1768–71) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, plate CXLVII, figure 1.

An image of The Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation book cover zoomed in.

Page pulled from "The Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation." It shows how to say the Book of the Dead in hieroglyphics.

This papyrus, one of many ancient Egyptian medical writings, included a prescription for asthma. This was written in hieratic text, c. 1550 BCE.