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But parchment wasn’t easy to make and it wasn’t cheap. Long ago, writing was done on parchment – thin, dried animal skins specially prepared for writing. In fact, there’s even a special name for documents like this: a palimpsest. Surprisingly, finding hidden writing on very old documents isn’t all that unusual. The students found the hidden writing using a special camera system they built. A group of second-year college students have discovered hidden writing on a page from a book from the 1500s.
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