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I often wonder about the lost literature of the past and the great philosophical works that never got transmitted. In her book ‘Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World,’ Irene Vallejo ...

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The ...

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