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Historians faced difficulties in using manuscripts.

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The above statement is True.
There were difficulties in using manuscripts for historians. Because there was no printing press in the beginning, manuscripts were written by hand. Scribes used palm leaves as a writing surface to copy those manuscripts. They offered their rendition in their distinctive manner because many words and sentences were beyond their comprehension. Additionally, they made a few minor adjustments to the documents. These minute modifications evolved over centuries of copying so that copies of the exact text dramatically varied. Historians assigned meaning to the events based on the documents they were given. As a result, to make educated assumptions about the facts, historians must read several manuscript versions of the exact text.

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