Document Detectives Use Smudges and Bloodstains to Investigate the Past
Source: Smithsonian
By Jo Marchant Photographs by Andrei Pungovschi 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. Arhire is the custodian of a government archive in Sibiu, Romania, a medieval city in the region of Transylvania. Inside the grand, historic building, elegant windows and…
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