The Discovery of Seneca the Elder's Lost Roman History [3:08]

YouTube ^ | February 13, 2026 | Secrets of the Dead PBS

[SunkenCiv]

Researcher Valeria Piano employs two different technological methods to decipher a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum. First, she uses a microscope to examine the texts, and then she studies images of the scrolls produced with infrared light. Her work has brought to light a history of Rome written by Seneca the Elder, long thought to have been lost forever. 

The Discovery of Seneca the Elder's Lost Roman History | 3:08 
Secrets of the Dead PBS | 12.7K subscribers | 3,726 views | February 13, 2026

 

YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai follows.

[Buttons12]

Yippee!! Now look around for the Etruscan-Latin Dictionary, it’s gotta be in there somewhere.

[SunkenCiv]

A lot of people don’t realize it, but the Etruscans lived between the Dtruscans and Ftruscans.

[StevenWH]

“I completed that frieze you wanted.”

“What a relief!”

[oldplayer]

Sunken, “A War like No Other” is a great instructive text in that encompasses much more than j’just’ a war. I learned in detail knowledge about Athens and Sparta and Persia and Sicily - knowledge that made what I had known beforehand seem high-schoolish.

I’m sure you will enjoy it.

[faithhopecharity]

this history is something that scholars have wanted to find forever, as the author lived thru the reigns of several Roman emperors (Agustus, Tiberius, and Caligula) in the first century

[SunkenCiv]

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