The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.

Derveni papyrus

Oldest surviving European manuscript (c. 340 BC)

The Derveni papyrus is an Ancient Greek papyrus roll that was discovered in 1962 at the archaeological site of Derveni, near Thessaloniki, in Central Macedonia. A philosophical treatise, the text is an allegorical commentary on an Orphic poem, a theogony concerning the birth of…