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RE: The Dead Sea Scrolls are still showing us new things, even after half a Century of study!
With the spectrum analysis, they have the formula. We just don't use Vellum anymore....
They are a prefect match, which says a lot!
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What's Vellum?
The parchment they were written on, made from animal hide.
:)>Oh! that makes sense.
They used the best they had! Our US Constitution is on vellum (sometimes called parchment) calf skin. So it was the best until recently....
:)>It was the best until recently? like a few years recently?
Lots of good options these days, including digital, but they still make a premium paper that they still call vellum, even though it is not made from skins anymore.
Some modern non acid papers should last many centuries, and the plastic coated ones should last thousands of years, even exposed.
:)>yeah just laminate something you want to last, right?
Plasticizers in the paper, but lamination is also available, LOL!
Not eactly calf skin....
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