World's oldest known book

The world's oldest multiple-page book - in the lost Etruscan language - has gone on display in Bulgaria's National History Museum in Sofia.

It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2939362.stm

I found this interesting...

 

Shiney. Thanks so much fro the link, fallout boy! Very interesting.

 

i like the book of kells

 

The gospel of the flying spaghetti monster!

 

This is one of the, if not the, oldest known photograph of a human being in existence. It depends on how one defines photograph, but this was taken by Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre in 1838.

http://unitedcats.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/oldest_human_photo.jpg



http://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/worlds-oldest-photograph-of-a-human-being/

 

I don't think it'd be that good of a read.

 

I think it'd be brilliant! Some of you are ignorant of historical brilliance. Thanks for the new links, noodle!