Two Afterlives of an Ancient Roman Library: What the Herculaneum Scrolls Are Still Trying to Tell Us
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How do you read a book that turns to dust if you open it? These words were important enough to be written, important enough to be told. Two thousand years later, some of that knowledge is still trapped inside. The volcano that buried Pompeii also buried nearby Herculaneum. Inside the Villa of the Papyri, hundreds of ancient scrolls survived—but in a carbonized state so fragile that opening them co...
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How do you read a book that turns to dust if you open it? These words were important enough to be written, important enough to be told. Two thousand years later, some of that knowledge is still trapped inside. The volcano that buried Pompeii also buried nearby Herculaneum. Inside the Villa of the Papyri, hundreds of ancient scrolls survived—but in a carbonized state so fragile that opening them co...
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