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No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Pompeii

Pompeii is an extraordinary place. Highly recommend that you go there. One of the things they find amazing about Pompeii, or it might be Huculennium, is the scrolls that were found. So 800 scrolls were found, perfectly preserved as everything there was. And we're just developing the x-ray technology to try and read bits of them. They've just found out that they use lead sometimes in the ink. Now x-rays can see what the lead shapes are and work out what they read.

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