Matthijs Wibier’s love of Latin first drew him to Classics. Years later, that fascination brought him to 50 tattered scraps of animal skin at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, where faded Latin sentences stopped at torn edges.Substantial fragments of a lost late-antique Latin law code languished in the Penn Museum for over a century until Prof. Wibier noticed them. Just a reminder of how many ancient texts still lie buried, not just in the field, but also in museum collections.[...]
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