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From the National Library of Medicine?

By Michael Lines

Unroll the scroll, as the NLM says:

It?s a novel twist on NLM?s popular online system, Turning The Pages, which allows you to turn the pages of a rare book on your computer screen. Now, users can journey back to pre-book times and ?unroll the scroll? or, more specifically, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the world?s oldest known surgical document. The new offering is at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html.

Try it – it is very interesting, and make sure to read the translation and the comments. Also zoom in…

via Resource Shelf

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).