Posted on 08/28/2017 6:59:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Scientists have uncovered lost ancient writings on parchment in Egypt, including ones jotted down in rare languages, that could give them a window into the past.
The Times reported that researchers used imaging technology to illuminate words that were written onto parchment before the ink was washed and wiped away and new text written over it. The hidden text included words written in Caucasian Albanian, a language that had previously only been found on some stone inscriptions. Three medical texts written in ancient Greek were also brought to light, including some written by Hippocrates, the groundbreaking ancient Greek physician for whom the Hippocratic Oath, the ethical oath that modern doctors take, was named.
Parchment was often used more than once because it was expensive, and some of the material that is housed in the library at the Saint Catherine’s Monastery, on the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula — which hangs between the Arabian Peninsula to the east and the rest of Egypt to the west — dates back hundreds of years, as the library itself is almost 1,500 years old.
Saint Catherine’s, officially called Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is at the foot of Mount Sinai, the place where the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament says Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.
The scientists used imaging technology that involves photographing the parchment from different angles and using light from different parts of the spectrum to reveal the ink remnants of the texts previously written on the parchment. When pairing the images with a computer algorithm, the scientists can show what was once there.
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PS: walls don’t exist because the neighbors are friendly!
Nor do they exist because your neighbors don’t want to make what is yours, theirs.
I wonder who the target audience for this was if they had to explain who Hippocrates was.
Caucasian Albanian? Is that different than Albanian?
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