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Trail 02 / 3 stops
Messages in the Material
Read a stone, make a manuscript, and lock a letter without an envelope.
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The British Museum / 16:34What the Rosetta Stone Actually Says
Begin with a royal message meant to be read in three different scripts.
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Getty Museum / 6:19Making Manuscripts
A text carved in stone survives differently from ink on skin. Meet the people who made a page last.
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Letterlocking videos / 8:49A Spiral-Locked Letter from Elizabeth I
Once you know how to make a page, watch its folds become the lock on a private letter.