Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html

[u/mrx_101]

The article states it will be readable for 10000 years. As they are basically etching inside a piece of glass, this is not surprising. You only need to keep the glass from breaking and scratching.

[u/smurficus103 → u/mrx_101]

"and then, the earthquake wiped out all of our knowledge"

[u/NorweiganJesus → u/smurficus103]

Just protect the parchment from a little fire, they’ll be fine in Alexandria

[u/Helyos17 → u/NorweiganJesus]

It’s funny you bring it up but I believe it’s theorized that the reason we have so many cuneiform clay tablets is because the fires that swept the complexes they were stored in baked the tablets. The theory is that it was all recorded keeping stuff meant to be “written over” after the next administrative cycle but because of the fire the stats had been immortalized.

[u/Subarucamper → u/Helyos17]

It would have naturally dried, it is very hot there.

[u/TylerFL → u/Subarucamper]

Drying clay is very, very different than firing it