Actually the fact that it was 2000 years old has nothing to do with it...There are lots of rocks around a lot older than than...Dirt is older than that.
As far as the information contained there on...It has since been duplicated.
The content is therefore useless.
The time when it could have been useful is 1000 years in the past.
Very good chance that the text was also copied by a scribe and not written by Archimedes...So you have a scribe erasing another scribes work...What’s the beef.
That it was 2000 years old has everything to do with it. We're talking Archimedes, for crying out loud!
Would you have this attitude if this book were in Thomas Jefferson's library? He, you will recall, could not live in a world without books.
Erasing Archimedes would have killed him.
And don't talk to me about the age of dirt. I was here when it arrived, remember?