Dutch historian Erik Kwakkel has unearthed some of the world’s oldest surviving doodles
Dr. F. (Erik) Kwakkel is a research scholar of paleography and codicology at Leiden University's Centre for the Arts in Society. For those who are not aware of the term, paleography actually refers to the study of historical scripts and writing systems, in order to decipher and more importantly, date the various ancient manuscripts accurately. When…