'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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Basque separatist group ETA reportedly says it is willing to declare a permanent cease-fire, verified by international observers, in a bid to settle the troubled region's long-running conflict with the Spanish government.
Although the manuscripts — highlights of which include a famous collection of Aesopian fables discovered on Mount Athos in 1844 — have long been available to scholars who made the trip to the British Library's reading rooms, curator Scot McKendrick said their posting to the Web was opening antiquity to the entire world.
"Not every scholar can afford to come here weeks and months on end," he said.
