About letters

Given the venerable age of the habit of corresponding, it is clear that letters appeared long before paper.

Some Asian peoples wrote on clay tablets, the ancient Egyptians used papyrus with predilection, and among the Greeks and Romans, papyrus coexisted with wax tablets, attached between two (diptych) or more (triptych, polyptych) wooden "covers". The senders of these tablet-letters tied and sealed them with their own seals, guaranteeing the inviolability of the correspondence.

The Romans of the imperial period used for letters the so-called epistolary acts, delivered to their destination by tabellarius (the precursor of the postal worker) or over long distances, by tabellaria navis (postal ships).

Indians and Chinese wrote on palm leaves, only in the 3rd century AD did parchment come into use, which was obtained from animal skins by tanning and processing them according to special procedures, unlike today's parchment, which is of vegetable origin, obtained by chemical treatment of cotton pulp. However, parchment's career was short-lived, being dethroned by paper coming from China, passing through the Arabian Peninsula, finally reaching the Italian Peninsula from where it conquered all of Europe; this not before expelling papyrus from Egypt.

Other accessories were perfected later; thus, steel pens made their appearance only at the end of the 18th century, and a little later the envelope was invented.

Now, you can send letters on the internet in animated form, in an envelope on which a red seal is applied, thus you can preserve traditions from the past but also the convenience of the present.