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Thread #64520 Message #1059233
Posted By: Rapparee
22-Nov-03 - 05:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ancient play: text found in mummy
Subject: RE: BS: Ancient play: text found in mummy
Yup, Robin. And sometimes the paper was reused by scraping off the previous writing and reusing the paper (or vellum or parchment). The Walters Gallery in Baltimore is currently working on a known-but-no-copy-of-it book by Archimedes which was discovered this way. I can only say, with my nieces and nephews,