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THE documents found early in 1935 on the ancient biblical site of Lachish, and now known as the Lachish Letters, were brought to London on the return of the expedition. During the summer of 1935, at the request of Mr. L. J. Starkey, I submitted them to a chemical examination. At the same time I made a more general investigation of the subject of early inks.
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” Books and Readers in Greece and Rome”, 42, 92 (1932).
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LEWIS, A. The Lachish Letters and the Use of Iron Inks in Antiquity. Nature 139, 470 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139470a0
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