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More than 6,000 people have signed a Facebook group protesting against proposals to abolish the only chair in the country for palaeography, the study of ancient handwriting, at King's College London.

Swansea University in Wales announced proposals to reduce the teaching staff in its modern languages department to 10 people, from 22. King's College London said it would abolish its chair in paleography, the study of ancient handwriting — the only such post in Britain.

He conveyed it to Tsar Alexander II, who appreciated its importance and had it published as nearly as possible in facsimile, so as to exhibit correctly the ancient handwriting.

A much more usual problem calls for paleography the study of ancient or medieval handwriting.

She acknowledged that the system had one advantage: overcoming the ancient problem of bad handwriting.

Doctoral student Arie Shaus, who helped develop the algorithm, said it was the first time such technology has been used to reconstruct and perform handwriting analysis on ancient Hebrew inscriptions.

Even if most of the studies used contemporary handwriting, some of them have used samples of ancient inscriptions and Byzantine codices [9].

Israeli techies have developed a computer program that can analyze handwriting styles, filling in the gaps of cracked or faded ancient texts.

Chemical and handwriting analysis reveal that the ink is consistent with other ancient ones, and carbon dating shows the papyrus dates back to somewhere between 659 C.E. and 869 C.E., National Geographic reports.

They said their study of the papyrus, the handwriting and how the ink was chemically absorbed, showed it was "highly probable an ancient text", King said.

In its strictest sense, palaeography is the study of ancient manuscripts whereby scholars can read texts – often partial, as many exist only in fragments – and localise and date handwriting accurately.