>The name of a highly educated English woman, secretly scratched on to the pages of a rare medieval manuscript in the eighth century, but impossible to read – until now.
The whole article they try make it sound like someone was secretly hiding these messages in various documents.
>capable of revealing “almost invisible” markings so shallow they measure about a fifth of the width of a human hair,
But it's pretty obvious that someone was doodling on some other material that was sitting on top of them.
I guess being able to recover 1,300 year old writing via the depressions left on another document just wasn't cool enough.
khrak t1_iy4ltaq wrote
Reply to Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text by hugglenugget
>The name of a highly educated English woman, secretly scratched on to the pages of a rare medieval manuscript in the eighth century, but impossible to read – until now.
The whole article they try make it sound like someone was secretly hiding these messages in various documents.
>capable of revealing “almost invisible” markings so shallow they measure about a fifth of the width of a human hair,
But it's pretty obvious that someone was doodling on some other material that was sitting on top of them.
I guess being able to recover 1,300 year old writing via the depressions left on another document just wasn't cool enough.