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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1994-05-01  |  14.7 MB  |  240x180  |  15fps  |  2 minutes, 20 seconds
Transcription: This is the first find of this kind in Jordan. I'm not speaking of Petra. Therefore, the importance is enormous and I should not like to exaggerate. We have already had a person, a paprologist from the States who came last week and he did a sort of preliminary assessment. He concluded that most of the stuff must be documentary. In other words, documents, maybe legal texts, correspondence, things like that. And this is why we think it's extremely important because Petra in the Byzantine period and this part of Jordan was relatively poorly known. There were no written sources available. Perhaps ...