THE DEADEST THING.
One would have supposed that about the deadest thing known is perished leather. Yet the British Museum lias found a way of reviving it.
With a recent consignment of ancient papyrus from Egypt came a roll of leather with an inscription on it, but the leather -was so brittle that it could not be unrolled, and theferore could not bo read. But in the Museum laboratories a process has now been found by which the leather has been made soft and pliable once more, and so has been made to yield up its secret!
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19271217.2.129.10
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1927, Page 14
Word Count
97THE DEADEST THING. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1927, Page 14
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.