The 2.5 metre,4000-year-old artefact, containing spells and depictions of gods, or is both the longest and oldest leather manuscript from ancient EgyptA leather manuscript more than 4000 years old has been painstakingly reconstructed by a scholar after it was rediscovered in the Egyptian museum in Cairo.
Containing devout spells as well as colourful depictions of divine and supernatural beings,predating those found in the Book of the Dead manuscripts, the leather roll is around 2.5 metres long, and with text and drawings on both sides. It is both the longest surviving leather ancient Egyptian manuscript and the oldest,according to Egyptologist Dr Wael Sherbiny, who found the roll in a mix of small and large fragments on the Cairo Museum’s shelves and announced his discovery at the International Congress of Egyptologists in Florence in August.
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Source: theguardian.com