Archaeological Discovery

Vol.2 No.4(2014), Paper ID 50925, 10 pages

DOI:10.4236/ad.2014.24012

 

Blackening of the Surfaces of Mesopotamian Clay Tablets Due to Manganese Precipitation

 

Etsuo Uchida, Ryota Watanabe

 

Department of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Copyright © 2014 Etsuo Uchida, Ryota Watanabe et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Uchida, E. and Watanabe, R. (2014) Blackening of the Surfaces of Mesopotamian Clay Tablets Due to Manganese Precipitation. Archaeological Discovery, 2, 107-116. doi: 10.4236/ad.2014.24012.

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