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#longtime — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. When plant parts #survive thousands of years. Dead plant parts filled with #lignin fulfill a variety of tasks as #wood in living #trees, but they also allow wood to survive for an impressively #longtime under suitable conditions.

    Here, for example, wooden #coffins from #ancient #Egypt:
    1) Coffin of a child, 22/23. Dynasty, 9th century BC.
    2) Lid of the inner coffin of the priest Nespamai, 27th Dynasty, 500 BC.
    1)+2) #NeuesMuseum #Berlin

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