Yes, they had paper!!

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2004)

Junkfishy mentions one "flaw" in the movie being paper which s/he says didn't exist until about 100 or so AD. Hmmmm, if that's so, how does one explain Egyptian papyrus and the Dead Sea Scrolls? Alexander purportedly carried a copy of Homer with him always. I'm sure he wasn't lugging around cuniform tablets! One of the saddest events in history was the destruction of the library at Alexandria--just think of what was lost! To point, perhaps the 10+ years worth of correspondence between Aristotle and Hephastion?
Anyway, I thought that the papers (maps, plans, letters) were one of the finer mundane details in Alexander that attracted my attention and added to the reality of the setting. Great care was taken to make them look like papyrii--made of fabric with the lines and uneveness evident.