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To: SunkenCiv

Because of the relatively limited amount of gold, its form changed repeatedly.

And unfortunately for manuscripts as well, i.e., the old writing would get scraped off and new writing put on.

Although with modern scientific techniques, they can sometimes recover the earlier writing.

41 posted on 05/01/2014 4:27:23 PM PDT by MUDDOG

To: MUDDOG

yup.

43 posted on 05/01/2014 4:42:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

44 posted on 05/01/2014 4:45:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)

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