Pic of Matthew fresco
Periplus Karchedon is an old name for Carthage
May 1941 Liverpool Museum fire
Chrissy Partheni - curator of Greek and Roman antiquities
Meet the Member: Chrissy Partheni, Curator of classical antiquities at National Museums Liverpool. Chrissy Partheni What classical collections are you involved with? Although I trained as an archae…
Moses Shapiro sheets of papyrus ... deliberately discolored before writing, to give an effect of age
papyrus
Uranios
writing ... steered crookedly around holes caused by later deterioration of the papyrus
The material really does look ancient.
p. 370
Sinaiticus
project was abandoned
1852 ... had been artificially aged to make it appear older
Leipzig leaves ... 1844
fresh-looking birth certificate