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The fancy new technologies for reading folded scrolls have started to produce a result.

Quote from: Duncan Head on April 30, 2024, 03:38:15 PMhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site

The fancy new technologies for reading folded scrolls have started to produce a result.

This is most encouraging.   Let us hope that missing histories turn up while we may still enjoy them.

Fascinating example of technology allowing us to decode the past.

I like the passage about Plato's final request for a Thracian slave girl to play the flute to him - only to criticise her lack of rhythm!  Oh well, it was probably difficult to find professional musicians at short notice.

At least he did not ask for a glass of wife beater...