The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed

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A woodblock-printed scroll of the Diamond Sutra is produced and dated by its own colophon to a day in 868, conventionally converted to 11 May. Recovered from Mogao Cave 17, it is the earliest dated complete printed book known, and it demonstrates that printing was in working use on the routes four centuries before it appeared in Europe.

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