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Recycling isn’t something new.
For thousands of years, different cultures have gotten creative about using the materials they had on hand.
This includes medieval scribes, who were responsible for writing important manuscripts.
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Then, they’d go about writing a new text on the fresh, blank pages.
The result is something that modern scholars call palimpsest manuscripts.
Incredibly, UV light can be used to reveal the invisible texta beautiful marriage of technology and classic research.
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This has led to amazing discoveries.
Hidden under two layers of text was a previously unknown chapter of the Bible.
The tradition of Syriac Christianity knows several translations of the Old and New Testaments, shared Kessel.
Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels.
