[ValerieUSA]

Millions of dollars could be spent teaching people to read and to write today.
Ancient texts are not necessarily superior to modern texts, they are just older. The words of the "reprints" are only as reliable as the scribes, and the integrity of the historians of the time was just as fallible as the veracity of journalists today.

[jennyp]

Ancient texts are not necessarily superior to modern texts, they are just older. The words of the "reprints" are only as reliable as the scribes, and the integrity of the historians of the time was just as fallible as the veracity of journalists today.

<sigh> Philistine!

Their value is that they embodied the ancestor ideas & schools of thought that evolved into what we have today. Surely you wouldn't view the Federalist Papers & the Anti-federalist Papers as just a bunch of old writings?

[let freedom sing]

There's always a hole in the budget for emergencies.

[Colorado Doug]

Millions of dollars could be spent teaching people to read and to write today.

I don't mean to pick on you but you have been listening to teachers unions too much. Millions more dollars are not what is needed to educate our youth. Inspiration and a desire to learn are more important, followed by inspired teachers and a desire to teach. A find such as this is truly inspirational.