19 minutes ago2000-year-old papyri redunded
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Called Basel's papyrus dates back 2,000 years. All studies have identified Galenon, the most famous physician of history after Hippocrates. So far no one had been able to decipher its contents. A search carried out by Stanford University team managed to solve the mystery. They used the technology most [...]
A search carried out by Stanford University team managed to solve the mystery. They used the most advanced technology and could discover that the papyrus was formed by many others, folded over one another.
When they broke up, deciphering became possible. Finally, as was suspected of a medical text that deals with the so - called apne (respiration loss).
This allowed for confirmation that the author was Galeno, or someone in his absence who commented on his work. Scientists say that an interesting discovery is that most papyrus is letters or administrative documents, while few contain literary or scientific texts. / world.al
