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To: Texan5

It would be nice to know if large numbers of Etruscan books were recycled as mummy bandages, a practice that led to preservation of some fragments of a some ancient works.


41 posted on 03/30/2016 3:56:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d forgotten that ancient cultures invented the concept of recycling out necessity-no EPA needed...

I’ve read that a number of Roman Empire power brokers insisted they were descended from ancestors who were buried in Etruscan tombs-it would be interesting to know if that ancestry was really widespread...


43 posted on 03/31/2016 11:41:00 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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