Most scholars cite the invention of paper as occurring in AD 105 when an eunuch in the Han court named Cai Lun created a papermaking process that was reported to the Chinese Emperor by Ts’ai Lun ...

Cai Lun received a promotion to “maquis” and a fief in 114 CE for this amazing discovery. Following the invention of paper, the writing game took a drastic turn. Paper slowly became the ...

With a big resource base of materials, the costs of making paper were reduced and paper was produced on a large scale. Before Cai Lun invented paper, people used animal bones, tortoise shells, bronze, ...

Cai Lun made remarkable enhancements to the making ... Although he is commonly renowned to be the inventor of paper, it is ...

A story that begins in China, where supposedly nearly 2000 years ago, a eunuch in the royal court, named Cai Lun, invented paper. “The Chinese were really the only ones to invent it,” said ...

Many ancient documents record the use of paper before AD 105, the year in which Cai Lun is credited with the invention of papermaking technique, said Li Fang whose recent book, Legend of Chinese ...

However, Cai Lun, a eunuch in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD25-220), greatly reformed the art of papermaking and is regarded as the inventor of ancient paper and the paper-making process. Li said the ...

NANJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese archaeologist has announced new findings about an ancient scrap of paper, likely to be evidence of the earliest on record, dating 250 years before Cai Lun ...