Writing material made from specially prepared untanned animal skin, or modern paper made to resemble it.
From Old French parchemin, from Latin pergamēnum, from Pergamon (ancient Greek city) where it was reportedly first developed when papyrus became scarce around 200 BCE.
Parchment was so valuable in medieval times that old texts were often scraped clean and reused, creating palimpsests that allow modern scholars to recover lost ancient works using special imaging techniques.
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