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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

People visit the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 28, 2025. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

People visit the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 28, 2025. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

A man visits the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 28, 2025. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

This photo taken on Oct. 28, 2025 shows a set of bamboo slips on display during the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

This photo taken on Oct. 28, 2025 shows a set of bamboo slips on display during the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

This photo taken on Oct. 28, 2025 shows a set of bamboo slips on display during the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

People visit the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 28, 2025. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

This photo taken on Oct. 28, 2025 shows the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bamboo Slips - Wuhan

People visit the exhibition "Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wooden Slips" at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 28, 2025. Featuring 230 pieces (sets) of bamboo and wooden slips from multiple historical periods, the exhibition opened here on Tuesday. Bamboo and wooden slips, each containing a narrow vertical column of dozens of characters, can be classified as China's earliest form of books. They used to be the most important objects to write on before paper was invented. Photo by Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory - Rome

The ‘ Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory’ housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: - - - Burn marks left by the hands of the deceased P. Panzini, Abbot Olivetano of Mantua on 1 November 1731 on some objects belonging to the venerable mother Isabella Fornari, Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Francisco in Todi (Italy). One, of the left hand is on the tablet used by the Abbess for her work with a sign of the cross deeply engraved in the wood. The report of the fact is given by Fr. Isidoro Gazala of the Most Holy Crucifix, confessor of the venerable mother, to whom he ordered by obedience to cut the pieces of the cassock and the tablet, so that they could be preserved. - The tiny century-old ‘Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorio’ holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tableto

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The Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory - Rome

The ‘ Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory’ housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Burn marks left by the hand of the deceased P. Panzini, Abbot Olivetano of Mantua on 1 November 1731 on some objects belonging to the venerable mother Isabella Fornari, Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Francisco in Todi (Italy). One, of the left hand is on the tablet used by the Abbess for her work with a sign of the cross deeply engraved in the wood. The report of the fact is given by Fr. Isidoro Gazala of the Most Holy Crucifix, confessor of the venerable mother, to whom he ordered by obedience to cut the pieces of the cassock and the tablet, so that they could be preserved. - The tiny century-old ‘Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorio’ holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and

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(ZhejiangPictorial)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-KAIHUA-PAPERMAKING (CN)

(231110) -- QUZHOU, Nov. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Huang Hongjian (R) and his son Huang Xinkang check the pulp used to make paper at his studio in Kaihua County of Quzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 9, 2023. Almost extinct, the traditional skills of making Kaihua paper, a kind of thin and enduring paper according to historical accounts, are now regaining vitality. Huang Hongjian, a 50-year-old farmer born in Kaihua, has been endeavoring to revitalize the skills since 2010 when he set out on a journey of visiting papermaking workshops and reading historical and technical books, trying to decode the making of Kaihua paper. With the support from Fudan University and local government, he finally managed to produce high-quality paper by the end of 2016. Since then, 20 varieties of handmade papers have been developed, meeting the need of ancient book restoring, reprinting, etc. Huang is now working on the setting of technical details for production on a larger scale. "Modern technology and traditio

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(ZhejiangPictorial)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-KAIHUA-PAPERMAKING (CN)

(231110) -- QUZHOU, Nov. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Huang Hongjian (R) and his son Huang Xinkang check the pulp used to make paper at his studio in Kaihua County of Quzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 9, 2023. Almost extinct, the traditional skills of making Kaihua paper, a kind of thin and enduring paper according to historical accounts, are now regaining vitality. Huang Hongjian, a 50-year-old farmer born in Kaihua, has been endeavoring to revitalize the skills since 2010 when he set out on a journey of visiting papermaking workshops and reading historical and technical books, trying to decode the making of Kaihua paper. With the support from Fudan University and local government, he finally managed to produce high-quality paper by the end of 2016. Since then, 20 varieties of handmade papers have been developed, meeting the need of ancient book restoring, reprinting, etc. Huang is now working on the setting of technical details for production on a larger scale. "Modern technology and traditio

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