Ancient Roman Villa May Hold World's Richest Literary Treasure

The Age ^ | 4-2-2002 | Robert Harris

[wildbill]

Shouldn't Italy be funding this with whatever it costs?

[SunkenCiv]

This one wouldn't be it. ;')

[RightWhale]

what it would have told us about Atlantis

Likely nothing. The main enterprise at the library was copying scrolls. Whatver they had would have eventually been loaned out in copy and would possibly be found elsewhere such as at Naples, and most of what they had postdated Alexander.

[dread78645]

Forget what I said about this being a slow GGG week...

SunkenCiv gets bored -- Mouldy-oldie week for the GGG list.

[SunkenCiv]

you're onto me.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

from this very old topic (more than ten years, probably):

In 1738, it was rediscovered and the excavators removed statues and objets d'art. In the process, they threw away many lumps of what they took to be coal or charcoal. It was not until 1752 when they discovered the villa's library - neatly lined with 1800 rolls of papyrus - that they realised the discarded material had been books.