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Scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have discovered the composition of red and black inks in ancient Egyptian papyri from circa 100-200 AD, leading to a number of hypotheses about writing practices. The analysis, based on synchrotron techniques, shows that lead was probably used as a dryer rather than as a pigment, similar to its usage in 15th-century Europe during the development of oil painting. They have published their results in PNAS.
In ancient Egypt, Egyptians used black ink for writing the main body of text, while red ink was often used to highlight headings, instructions or keywords. During the last decade, many scientific studies have been conducted to elucidate the invention and history of ink in ancient Egypt and in the Mediterranean cultures, for instance ancient Greece and Rome.
The scientists used the powerful X-rays of the ESRF to study the red and black ink in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library, the only large-scale institutional library known to have survived from ancient Egypt. Read more.
For those wondering how the hell to start practicing longsword if you have no club near you; here’s a good series of very basic exersizes
There’s a million websites where you can buy a sword. Ebay even.
Start with a wooden one. A wooden one is cheap and somewhat lighter than a steel blade. And you needn’t be in great shape; a sword only weighs like. 2 pounds. I do 30-40 minutes with a steel blade, but start with like, 5-10 with a wooden sword, or even just a broomstick with the ends cut off.
To be quite honest, the best exercises to get into shape for sword fighting are, well, sword fighting. You use muscles with a sword that no other exercise seems quite to get. Your forearms ARE going to hate you at first so know that going in.
But when you first start after like, 10 minutes your arms will want to drop off, and so you stop. At this point, the “Wet noodle arms that I can barely lift” takes a solid 45 minutes of drills to get to for me, and I’m still pushing that back. (Goal is an hour)
So it’s more just how long you do drills than what you do to start out, tbh
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