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A comment on What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids (2015). Parent comment

Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by pjmlp on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:31PM (#15368380)
Sadly we cannot say the same about our current digital knowledge.
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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by autokad on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:40PM (#15368986)
I'm sure they'll dig up quite a few AOL disks a couple thousand years from now
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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by tpeo on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:07PM (#15369216)
Funny thing how the invention of plastics might reverse the pattern of future artifacts. Valuable/costly artifacts are currently over-presented, since they were made either of stone or metal, as opposed to mud and wood.
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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by WalterBright on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:17PM (#15369719)
There's still a blizzard of paper being printed.
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