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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucinda Cameron

Ancient Greek equivalent of ‘graduate school yearbook’ discovered on stone

Historians have discovered that an ancient Greek inscription on a marble slab in a museum collection is a rare, previously unknown “graduate school yearbook” type list of names.

Experts looked at the stone, which has been stored in the National Museums Scotland (NMS) collection for more than 100 years, as part of a project to publish English translations of inscriptions from ancient Athens held in UK collections.

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