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besilarius

January 21, 2015, 07:36:13 AM
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-scrolls-blackened-vesuvius-are-readable-last-herculaneum-papyri-180953950/?utm_source=facebook.com&no-ist

A new method of scanning allows charred papyrus texts to be read.  The eruption of Vesuvius burned a library, making it impossible to read most of the contents.
Now let's see those dirty scrolls of Roman porn.  Snort-Pant.
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Centurion40

#1
January 21, 2015, 08:35:41 AM
Sweet!
Any time is a good time for pie.

JasonPratt

#2
January 21, 2015, 10:28:52 AM
Wow!  :D

Text critics (who compare ancient copies to figure out the original texts as closely as possible) around the world will be wetting themselves. And I say that without meaning to sound snarky -- text critics are massive geeks.  O0 (As I know from working on the fringes of that discipline.)

The hugest discoveries would surely be any 1st century Jewish or Christian texts (canon or otherwise), or anti-texts for that matter either way (e.g. Philo deciding he wants to weigh in on what that carpenter-rabbi was doing). But copies are so pauce for any ancient text (except the NT, but even for the NT back that early -- we have no 1st century copies or even fragments), that anything recovered from this will be a gold mine for historians, literary and otherwise.
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LongBlade

#3
January 21, 2015, 10:49:53 AM
Agreed, Jason. I would love to know what has been forgotten.
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Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Gusington

#4
January 22, 2015, 06:51:36 PM
I forgot to pick up eggs.
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LongBlade

#5
January 23, 2015, 12:39:40 AM
Quote from: Gusington on January 22, 2015, 06:51:36 PM
I forgot to pick up eggs.

Yes, but there's probably more.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Martok

#6
January 28, 2015, 02:42:57 PM
Quote from: besilarius on January 21, 2015, 07:36:13 AM
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-scrolls-blackened-vesuvius-are-readable-last-herculaneum-papyri-180953950/?utm_source=facebook.com&no-ist

A new method of scanning allows charred papyrus texts to be read.  The eruption of Vesuvius burned a library, making it impossible to read most of the contents.
Now let's see those dirty scrolls of Roman porn.  Snort-Pant.
That's awesome.  Will be curious as to what they find. 

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GDS_Starfury

#7
January 28, 2015, 02:45:38 PM
I'm sure they'll put it on a website you have to scroll through.
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#8
January 28, 2015, 02:49:58 PM
the puns just roll off your keyboard, don't they?
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Centurion40

#9
January 28, 2015, 02:52:42 PM
See, that's helpful.  Gus forgot to get rolls too!
Any time is a good time for pie.

besilarius

#10
June 20, 2016, 10:24:09 PM
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

Sir Slash

#11
June 21, 2016, 09:39:42 AM
First scroll says, "SHHHHHH. It's a Library not a Chariot Race"!  Second says, "In the event of Volcanic Eruption, shelter in place under the tables. They are all fireproof".  8)
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

bob48

#12
June 21, 2016, 10:02:56 AM
One says 'Sir Slash - overdue scrolls 'erotic 'studies' ....ahem' Fortunately, the overdue fine amount is well singed off.
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Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Sir Slash

#13
June 21, 2016, 01:54:05 PM
Damn! I gave those to Mirth to return.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

bob48

#14
June 21, 2016, 02:00:11 PM
I bet they're under his bed.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!
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