Herculaneum papyri
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Herculaneum papyri
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The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The papyri, containing a number of Greek philosophical texts, come from the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. However, reading the scrolls is extremely difficult, and can risk destroying them. The evolution of techniques to do this conti
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Scrolls from ancient Italy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri
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2011-08-14T16:30:09Z
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2024-08-29T15:46:55Z
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