Baking parchment is also known as greaseproof paper. It is available in most supermarkets.
No because they didn't use much paper apart from parchments. They did have books though I am not sure if they had newspapers.
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Some ancient parchments that have been rediscovered have been dated as being thousands of years old
Yes
Repair it. The Torah-scroll parchments can be sewn.
phylacteries/tefillin
Writing and drawing on animal skins (parchments) was a natural advancement to drawing on cave walls.
There are golden artifacts, as well as many old parchments. However, many of these were destroyed during the fighting in Mali.
Tefillin are Phylacteries, the leather boxes containing Torah-parchments and worn on the arm and the head by Jewish males in the morning prayers.
The traditions of their early forefathers. From the beginning, they had parchments on which their early traditions were recorded (midrash Shemot Rabbah 5:18) which they studied regularly (ibid).
Tallies were . . . a sophisticated and practical record of numbers. They were more convenient to keep and store than parchments, less complex to make, and no easier to forge.
Aureliano (III), son of Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula, dies last in 100 Years of Solitude. He is eaten by ants after deciphering the parchments of Melquiades.