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Are Bsous and byssus related?

June 3, 2009

Researching the silk industry in Lebanon, I happened across a reference to the Bsous Silk Museum. Mollusk Silk, the blogger who led me there, asks an interesting question that might have tickled N.I. Vavilov’s love for languages and words.
I am now curious about the name of the town itself. I understand that “Bsous” comes originally [...]

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