[SunkenCiv]

This is an imaged parchment document from Yarburgh Muniments Lancashire Deeds YM. D. Lancs Jan. 13-14, 1576/7.

[Verginius Rufus]

It would be interesting to know what the text on that parchment says. The handwriting is a bit hard to decipher.

The only part I could make out is where it says "drink your Ovaltine."

[MUDDOG]

A page from the Red Book of Westmarch?

[KarlInOhio]

To conduct their research, geneticists at Trinity extracted DNA from two tiny (2x2cm) samples of parchment

Obama is eager to have a few sheets of 24 inch x 28 inch parchment pulped for genetic analysis.

[Robwin]

Might this process be applied to the Shroud of Turin? That might prove interesting.

[wildbill]

Damn, I was hoping this headline meant that the scientific community had finally succeeded in retrieving the info from the charred and burnt scrolls found in Pliny’s library after being buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.

There’s hope that many of the lost books of ancient times are there.