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October 27, 2024

Reading the Herculaneum Papyri

Filed under: History, Italy, Science, Technology — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Toldinstone Footnotes
Published Jul 5, 2024

On this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Dr. Federica Nicolardi and I discuss the challenges of reading scrolls charred and buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Chapters:
00:00 Discovery of the scrolls
03:23 Opened and unopened
05:17 How to handle charred papyrus
09:11 New texts
13:17 Philodemus of Gadara
16:04 Epicurean philosophy
20:20 The library in the Villa of the Papyri
24:05 The Vesuvius Challenge
25:56 Progress so far …
28:44 The newest text
30:06 What comes next
34:20 What’s still buried?

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  1. Secrets of the Herculaneum Papyri
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  3. An appropriate task for AI – reading the Herculaneum scrolls

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