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Thread #64520 Message #1059289
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
22-Nov-03 - 07:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ancient play: text found in mummy
Subject: RE: BS: Ancient play: text found in mummy
Yes, Rapaire, saw the TV documentary about it recently...
They are using infra red and other tricks to recover the text and drawings...
BTW this Archimedes text was overwritten by a Christian prayer book...
some idiot painted fakes of illuminations over some of the pages to increase the sale price
seems like we could have landed on the moon about 1000 years ago if 1) the library at Alexandria hadn't been destroyed 2) Western Society hadn't been "enlightened" by Christianity during the Middle Ages...