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Nature 423, 588 (5 June 2003) |
Philology: The pages of history
Alison Abbott
The knowledge of the ancient Greeks found an indirect route to modern European scholars. Works written on parchment or papyrus were serially copied, often unfaithfully, by scribes and translators, as the originals fell apart.
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