印度河文明早期文字的正式书写体系也在此时诞生，从陶器碎片上和图章在黏土上盖出的印记里，都可以证明。

A formal writing system, known as the Early Indus script, emerged in this phase, as evinced by its appearance on numerous pottery fragments and in impressions that a seal, or stamp, made in clay.

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在湖南马王堆一位侯爵夫人死于大约168年的坟墓中，研究人员已经找到早期的文字书写在绸纸上的例子。

Researchers have found an early example of writing done on silk paper in the tomb of a Marchioness who died around 168, in Mawangdui, Hunan.

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那些早期的故事来自当地的传统，但是文字一经发明，它就开始永久地被使用在石头雕刻上，以及随后的羊皮纸上。

Those early tales were carried down through oral tradition, but almost as soon as writing was invented, they began to be captured for eternity through stone carvings, and later on parchment.

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