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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. Speaking of science... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...it's just been discovered that kids these days are idiots.

    1. Re:Speaking of science... by asramchusak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is yet another example of the declining standards of Western education. Say what you will about the Taliban, but every child under their regime knew how to read and write.

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      Yes, I am a Muslim. No, I am not a Terrorist.
  2. library by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    in Soviet Italy, library returns to YOU!