[SunkenCiv]

• The discovery was made between 2016 and 2017, and confirmed an unpublished palaeographical intuition of Robert Marichal [March 20 1904 – October 23 1999], making possible, in addition, the precise identification of the auctor and a plausible proposal concerning the work in question. -- Valeria Piano | Academia.edu | Università degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence)
• A 'historic(al)' find from the library of Herculaneum: Seneca the Elder and the Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium in P.Herc. 1067 | Valeria Piano | [PDF chapter download]
• Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography | Edited by: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio | 2020 [PDF download]

[Verginius Rufus]

A son of Seneca the Elder is mentioned in the New Testament—Gallio, the proconsul who was governor of the Roman province of Achaea when Paul was in Corinth (Acts 18.12-17).

[mjp]

I just watched a PBS documentary, yesterday, about how the scientists are able to make the Herculaneum Scrolls readable. It was fascinating,

[Buttons12]

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

[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