[virgil283]

Evans emphasized that the masks that are being destroyed to reveal the new texts are not high-quality ones that would be displayed in a museum. Some are not masks at all but are simply pieces of cartonnage. Archaeologists are finding not just biblical texts, but fragments of writings by Homer and other Greek writers, as well as documents that capture slices of everyday life in that time period.

Evans told Live Science, “We’re not talking about the destruction of any museum-quality piece.”

The technique is bringing many new texts to light, Evans noted. “From a single mask, it’s not strange to recover a couple dozen or even more” new texts, he told Live Science. “We’re going to end up with many hundreds of papyri when the work is done, if not thousands. Archaeologists are finding not just biblical texts, but fragments of writings by Homer and other Greek writers, as well as documents that capture slices of everyday life in that time period ”

..... http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/20/does-this-mummy-mask-contain-the-worlds-oldest-gospel-5029707/

[Bayard]

A Gospel manuscript that was in circulation well enough to be used in a first century mask is likely to have been written and known by those with a living memory of Jesus.

[Darteaus94025]

They made a documentary about this 15 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7oKxlaUBac

[BenLurkin]

He’s got a guilty expression. Maybe he was ashamed.

[WayneS]

The biggest mystery to me is how they got the platypus to sit still while they were writing on it.

[bunkerhill7]

It`s called “PAPER MACHE’ masks”.

well duhhhhhhhh