1,200-year-old Faddan More Psalter's journey from Irish bog to museum treasure, use of papyrus hints at trade links with Egypt -- Secret History -- Sott.net

One summer's day in Tipperary as peat was being dug from a bog, a button peered out from the freshly cut earth. The find set off a five-year journey of conservation to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old psalm book in its...

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