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Definition of “document”
The definition of the term “document” is very controversial. In the broader sense of the word, it refers to all types of written forms or materials (such as papyrus, parchment, or paper) containing a body of information written by people in a given historical period. Documents might take the form of books, manuscripts, letters, correspondences, writs, marriage and divorce contracts and other types of legal deeds. In the narrow sense of the word, it means only the papers and records produced by certain governmental diwans and bodies to store information. The latter sense is the one used to refer to the word ‘document’ on this site, for the National Archives is a governmental inventory and is only responsible for the preservation of all the files and records of the Egyptian government.
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