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I don't remember if I've posted this article before; apologies if it's a repeat.

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Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Continuously Run Libraries

The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt


https://www.smithsonianmag.com...monastery-180964698/


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