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      "A short note: \n\nDid you know?🧵📜\n\nThe world's longest surviving..."
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  "content": "\n\nDid you know?🧵📜\n\nThe world's longest surviving Etruscan text isn't carved in stone, it's wrapped around a mummy.\n\nIn 1848, a Croatian official named Mihajlo Barić bought a sarcophagus in Alexandria, Egypt, as a souvenir. Inside was the mummy of a woman, wrapped in strips of linen covered in mysterious writing. He propped her up in his living room for years, having no idea what the text said.\n\nWhen the wrappings were finally studied properly in 1891, experts first guessed the script was Coptic, Libyan, or even Arabic. They were wrong on all counts, it turned out to be Etruscan, the enigmatic pre-Roman language of Italy that's still only partially understood today.\n\nThe linen had nothing to do with the Egyptian woman it was wrapped around, it was probably just spare fabric the embalmers had on hand. The book itself was written centuries earlier, likely a religious/ritual calendar, in what's now Tuscany.\n\nToday it's known as the Liber Linteus (\"Linen Book\"), and it sits in a climate-controlled room in Zagreb, Croatia, the oldest surviving book in Europe, hiding in plain sight as mummy wrapping for over 2,000 years. ",
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