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Sunday, June 05, 2016

X-rays reveal 1,300-year-old writings



An x-ray technique reads fragments of manuscripts that have been reused as bookbindings and which cannot be deciphered with the naked eye. After the middle ages manuscripts were recycled, with pages pasted inside bindings to strengthen them. Those fragments may be the unique remains of certain works

More: The Guardian

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