суббота, 3 марта 2012 г.

David Livingstone letter deciphered at last

The contents of a long-lost letter written by 19th-century explorer David Livingstone have been deciphered by a U.S.-British team of academics and scientists.

The nearly 140-year-old missive was written by Livingstone as he struggled against extreme conditions in the African village of Bambarre, in present-day Congo.

With the famed explorer out of paper and low on ink, he tore pages from books and wrote with a pigment improvised from the …

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