http://savvythinker.com/the-archimedes-codex-unpeeled/ thinking about life, playing with makeup Mon, 14 May 2012 10:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://savvythinker.com/the-archimedes-codex-unpeeled/comment-page-1/#comment-102461 Karin Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:25:10 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2008/04/17/the-archimedes-codex-unpeeled/#comment-102461 I think it would be too taxing for me! I think it would be too taxing for me!

]]> http://savvythinker.com/the-archimedes-codex-unpeeled/comment-page-1/#comment-102450 helg Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:03:57 +0000 http://savvythinker.com/2008/04/17/the-archimedes-codex-unpeeled/#comment-102450 It's a fascinating albeit terribly taxing process! There has to be monitoring through an UV light to access possible scrible under the materials that cover it ifa pelimpsest (dirt, glue, other writing etc), then very careful "cleaning", not to mention the linguistic process of hypothesizing what the missing letters/words are and accessing the continuum of sentences... Same happened more or less with Dead Sea manuscripts, Judas's gospel etc. It’s a fascinating albeit terribly taxing process! There has to be monitoring through an UV light to access possible scrible under the materials that cover it ifa pelimpsest (dirt, glue, other writing etc), then very careful “cleaning”, not to mention the linguistic process of hypothesizing what the missing letters/words are and accessing the continuum of sentences…
Same happened more or less with Dead Sea manuscripts, Judas’s gospel etc.

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