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Words too stubborn to die, handwritten survivors of fire, mold, and a thousand careless centuries.
erased goldMonks scraped old texts to reuse pricey parchment
hidden layersUV light reveals erased writing called palimpsests
slow laborOne Bible could take a scribe years
toxic beautySome inks contained arsenic and crushed insects
page countEach animal skin made just a few sheets