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Some whiz kids figured out how to read charred scrolls from Pompeii and we have the text from the first scroll
Daily Mail UK ^
| February 5, 2024
| Stacy Liberatore
Posted on 02/07/2024 8:24:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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02/07/2024 8:24:15 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
All the scrolls that have been partially read have been of Epicurean philosophy, mostly by the same author. Thanks to two FReepers for the links!
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:27:05 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.................
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:28:11 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:28:48 AM PST
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:29:08 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: SunkenCiv
Herculaneum and Pompeii are two different places some distance apart. Pompeii was a serious commercial center, Herculaneum was a smaller seaside resort. The scrolls are from a buried library discovered some time ago at Herculaneum. They would have quickly burned at Pompeii.
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:30:19 AM PST
by
hinckley buzzard
( Resist the narrative. . )
To: SunkenCiv
“texts that discussed sources of pleasure”
What’s it say!? What’s it say!?
ruh ruhst rusty trrraaahhhmbone
rusty trombone
To: SunkenCiv
It really makes you wish they hadn’t completely destroyed so many of the burned scrolls in the 19th century to unwrap a tiny little bit.
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:37:29 AM PST
by
FLT-bird
To: SunkenCiv
“All your base are belong to us!”
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:38:07 AM PST
by
Islander7
(There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:39:21 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
To: Islander7
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:40:52 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
To: SunkenCiv
> The three students, from Egypt, Switzerland and the US… <
Wait a minute. None of them are Italian. So what business do they have reading Roman scrolls? This sure looks like cultural appropriation to me.
Somebody ought to contact somebody over this.
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:42:55 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:46:17 AM PST
by
Kartographer
(“We MutualBetter ly Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
To: SunkenCiv
Congratulations on the birth of your child, Mr & Mrs Biden
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:47:27 AM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: SunkenCiv
Scrolling down a bit in the article at link.
... The general subject of the text is pleasure, which, properly understood, is the highest good in Epicurean philosophy. ...
Destroyed AD 79.
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:47:48 AM PST
by
Salman
(It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
To: FLT-bird; Larry Lucido
I try not to think about that.
If I had a time machine, I'd go back the night before the eruption and steal the scrolls, digitally scan all of them, then return them ten minutes after stealing them. It wouldn't matter how long it took to get the scanning done, as long as I set up the scanning lab in a different time and place prior to their rediscovery. :^)
I've got some other great plans regarding the use of technology that doesn't exist (AFAIK) and using money I don't have. :^)
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:48:58 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:49:02 AM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: hinckley buzzard
Other scrolls have been found in Pompeii, just no libraries (so far). They didn’t get carbonized as they did in Herculaneum. The House of the Vettei was owned by a couple of freedmen (brothers, probably) and they financed their remodeling and probably small business using loans from a private banker who lived down the street. The loan records survived in the banker’s house. Not bad. :^)
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:54:56 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Leaning Right
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:55:53 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Salman
Odd that the rest of the Empire continued to be interested in Epicureanism right up to the final fall, Constantinople, in 1453.
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posted on
02/07/2024 8:57:00 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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