Focusing on archives in Greece, Rome, Egypt and Meopotamia, the article compares archival criteria with the present day practice and finds similarities including: 1) law, 2) administrative action, 3) accounting, 4) land records and ownership, 5) control over people with regard to servitude and taxation and 6) business transactions.
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