According to most historical records paperwas invented China around 105 AD by the Chinese's Emperor's chief eunuch, T'sai. Althought the Egyptians had discovered the use of papyrus, it was the T'sai Lun who invented the process that would yield paper as it is known today. The process of papermaking made it's way around Asia, but remaind a secret from the Western world until Arab's captured a handful of Chinese papermakers. From the Arab world paper final made its way to Europe.
http://www.hqpapermaker.com/paper.htmBy David Kim
created on 2/21/01