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Lost Library Returns After 2000 Years

Posted by michael on from the mudbath dept.

Technodummy writes "An update on Reading the Ancient Papyri. The long-buried Villa of the Papyri, one of Italy's richest Roman villas famed for its library of ancient scrolls, opened to the public this weekend almost 2,000 years after it was submerged in volcanic mud. The scrolls, which looked like sticks of charcoal when they were first discovered, have mostly turned out to be works of Greek epicurean philosophy from the first century BC."

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  1. Sticks of charcoal? by Lazyhound · · Score: 5, Funny


    Why? Did they store them on top of IBM monitors?

  2. who would have thought? by kurosawdust · · Score: 3, Funny

    It turns out that the last item checked out was "Burying a Village for Plebians"

  3. Overdue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else read this headline as "Lost books returned to library 200 years late"?

    What a fine . .

  4. Libraries by CokeBear · · Score: 4, Funny

    The crazy thing about libraries is that if they didn't exist and someone tried to invent them today, the publishers would have a conniption fit, and it would never happen. Give away knowledge for free? What are you, crazy? We'd go broke! Only a pinko/commie/liberal would come up with such a whacked out idea.

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    Reality has a liberal bias
  5. I can see it now by moc.tfosorcimgllib · · Score: 4, Funny

    Classics 180 & 181 just got a hell of a lot more material.

  6. Did they say... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...what percentage of it is porn?

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  7. two entire levels below by g4dget · · Score: 2, Funny
    "One of the biggest novelties uncovered is that the villa isn't just on one level, there are two entire levels below to explore,"

    Sounds like some sort of Morrowind expansion pack.