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Sure, things carved into or painted onto stone have good longevity. That’s an insignificant minority compared to all the paper records that have been rendered unreadable over the same number of years.

Not to mention that accessing those records—finding them in the first place and searching through them—at any kind of scale is essentially completely prohibitive for most use-cases, many of them might as well not even exist until someone takes the effort to digitize them.