The Vesuvius Challenge

A high tech attempt to read scrolls cooked in the Pompeii explosion has succeeded. The first work they can read is Epicurean philosophy, and much more remains. It is hoped that even some of the lost works of Aristotle might be included. 
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2 comments:

  1. Tom1:01 AM

    This is exciting. I can't wait to see what they recover.

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  2. J Melcher2:39 PM

    So much of the world's literature has been considered "lost". Here's hoping that instead it had merely been mislaid.

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