From an article by Jo Marchant and published in the Smithsonian Magazine: Proteins left behind on historic artifacts are revealing centuries-old secrets One rainy morning in May, a Romanian archivist named Tudor Arhire retrieved a brown envelope from a wooden filing cabinet, slid out a small, yellowed page and placed it carefully on the table. …
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Document Detectives Use Smudges and Bloodstains to Investigate the Past
From an article by Jo Marchant and published in the Smithsonian Magazine: Proteins left behind on historic artifacts are revealing centuries-old secrets One rainy morning in May, a Romanian archivist named Tudor Arhire retrieved a brown envelope from a wooden filing cabinet, slid out a small, yellowed page and placed it carefully on the table. …
Donegal Museum Launches WW1 Database
A searchable database of over 1,000 people from Co Donegal who died as a result of World War 1 has been launched by Donegal County Museum The database was compiled as part of Donegal County Council’s Decade of Centenaries Commemorative Programme and contains information on each known person from the county who died as a …