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Bergama parchment, also known as Bergama paper, is a durable writing material made exclusively from animal skin that has been thinned using lime solution and is suitable for writing. This material, whose origins trace back to the 2nd century BCE in the Kingdom of Pergamon, was developed by librarians Krates and Herodicus from goat skin following a ban on the export of papyrus from Egypt. Traditional production involves no chemical substances; it consists of washing the skins, soaking them in lim