collections. eighty one thousand printing plates made in the thirteenth century almost two hundred years before your highness good and bad developed a modern method of printing in europe. the plates are made of birchwood the mirror image characters are worked in high relief the would remain sound even today there is no decay no wood one.
of humanity s greatest treasures the korean trape tucker. for asia this is a treasure as important as the library of alexandria long burnt to the ground or the pyramids of egypt or the few other genuine wonders of the world. more than eighty one thousand printing plates were stored here they were made almost seven hundred years ago and record the knowledge and the thinking of the time along with the buddhist teachings. and some sort of drugs not found in other