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Re:New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés T... by dzdt on Saturday March 23, 2024 @07:48PM (#39803876)
According to the article in La Jornada one of the codices is a palimpsest! Under multispectral imaging older erased Aztec text is visible. If anything substantial can be recovered there it may be this should be counted as four new codices.

[1] https://www.jornada.com.mx/2024/03/21/cultura/a03n1cul

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Re:New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés T... by infecto on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:36AM (#39814991)
Assumed based on the context but first time seeing this word as far as I can remember.

Palimpsest - a manuscript on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.

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Re:New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés T... by owendlamb on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @02:34PM (#39831231)
Webster's definition lacks the connotation of incompleteness, but otherwise you're spot on: http://www.websters1913.com/words/Palimpsest

I guess it's possible for a palimpsest's erasure to be complete to the naked eye, but for its original text to still be distinguishable outside the visible spectrum.

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