Recovering literature from Herculaneum

[Duncan Head]

There's an interesting piece about scientific efforts to read the scrolls from Piso's villa at Herculaneum on the BBC today - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25106956.

And more at http://www.classics.ucla.edu/index.php/philodemus - many of the Herculaneum texts are by Philodemos of Gadara. Unfortunately, not a writer who seems to have been into military history 

[Jim Webster]

According to the wiki " ethics, theology, rhetoric, music, poetry, and the history of various philosophical schools."

Am I allowed to describe him as 'neither use nor ornament'
I'm probably a Philistine (being not bad at metal work) :-)

Jim

[Mark]

I think the article said that there are 400 or so scrolls still completely unread, and quite a number still believed to be underground. So still some hope.

Interesting to see this come back with relatively little progress - I recall an article about this in the Sunday Times several years' ago and was wondering what had happened.