Ink May Have Poisoned Monks : Discovery News : Discovery Channel: "Biblical Text-Writing May Have Poisoned Monks
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
June 27, 2008 -- Medieval bones from six different Danish cemeteries reveal that monks who wrote Biblical texts and other religious materials may have been exposed to toxic mercury, which was used to formulate just one of their ink colors: red."
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