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Excavations of tombs have also been fruitful and the museum displays some beautiful clay sarcophagi.
That, combined with the image of Linda as groupie-in-shutterbug's-clothing conjured up by an infamous piece from the Clay Felker era at the Village Voice , established Linda as a figure of almost singular unpopularity (the "almost" courtesy of Yoko Ono, who in the public's addled mind, bore the added stigma of breaking up the Beatles.)
It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.
Survival was increased by five or more orders of magnitude when the spores in the dry layer were directly mixed with powder of clay, rock, or meteorites.
From antiquity many such chameleonic switchovers are preserved on papyrus, parchment, stone, and bone and in clay, Greek letters serving to write Demotic Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Indian, and Latin.