Posted on 07/21/2015 8:17:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Patience and painstaking work indeed.
I collect old documents. One of the items that I have is an unopened Coptic scroll from Ethiopia. It probably dates from somewhere between the 1400’s and the 1800’s—most likely toward the latter end of that period. Once I retire (which won’t be long) I intend to unroll it, perhaps using a similar technique that I once used in softening dried insects for mounting. Since it is papyrus, not silver, I’m hoping that a couple of months will be a sufficient amount of time. It could take more time, since I intend to sleep late once I retire.
“For a man to lie with another man is a celebration”
Wait....what?
I retired a year ago from a job where I arose at 4:15 for 43 years. Now I sleep in all the way until 6:00 (a.m.), whence my alarm summons me to another blessed day.
Excellent!
Once again, the best approach to a damaged artifact that can't be researched without further damages is leave it alone until the technology comes along to allow it to be researched.
I wholeheartedly agree. Of course, the same general argument is made for not digging out more of Pompeii until there’s money to re-restore, conserve, and protect the parts already uncovered, which means, we’ll die before anything else gets dug. ;’)
It’s also a window on just how human beings solve scarcity issues. In this case the ‘scarcity’ was the ability to read this and other scrolls/writings like it. Problem solved, again.
...the mudduh of invention...
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