1,800 baked Herculaneum Scrolls now readable
We can now read scrolls that are 2 thousand years old. When Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in 79CE it buried the Herculaneum library with its philosophical works, mostly from Philodemus of Gadara an Epicurean philosopher. However without oxygen these scrolls did not burn they baked. It is now possible to read them and some have […]
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