Last week my class and I took a field trip to Penn. The best part was the traffic into to Philly wasn’t that bad. Penn is breathtaking the campus is nestled right into Philly. Penn’s archives is very large and has books on various topics from most period and places in time. The Penn and Ursinus archives are different because the Penn archive has texts on various topics and Ursinus archive only have text about Ursinus and the surrounding area. I also saw Benjamin Franklins desk so that was cool. We also looked at many extremely old texts that reached shared a characteristic with one of the so-called Jedi texts. Honestly when this was brought up I tollatly geeked out because I am a total star wars nerd. The books that we were shown all had similialar charecterics as the ancient Jedi texts. the books that we saw also were from all different cultures and places across the globe. Even the writings in the ancient Jedi texts look like how real texts are written. Many drawing were also similar of those that are in real manuscripts. We also looked at how the book it self was made can tell you where the book was made, when it was made, and sometimes who made it. Many of the older codexes were made from parchment with is dry animal skin . On some of the books we could even see the hair follicles on the pages. We also learned about depending on how the book was made or written can tell us how much money the person had that was writing it.
Bears makes history 