She still treasures the moment when a piece of the past, an object of people's daily lives in ancient Athens, or a marker mentioned in an ancient text, is revealed and she's able to bring it back into the light.

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They then turned the pages upside down and wrote over the ancient text in jet-black ink.

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High schools teach sections of the ancient text, in its classical Japanese, to prepare pupils for university entrance.

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