1,800 texts from 79 A.D Pompeii scrolls, holy shit, this is going to be awesome when they are done!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Awesome, thanks for posting this. I FREAKING HATE the loss of the library at Alexandria. This will be a nice glimpse into the human experience back then,
JacobMeyers
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Oct 6, 2019
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This has been in the works for decades, nice to see major progress being made. There have to be other carbonized libraries in the vicinity still undiscovered too, a library was quite the status symbol for elite Romans. And 79 AD, might be contemporary documentation shedding new light on a certain controversial ministry a few decades earlier. 
Exciting stuff.
Druvius
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Oct 5, 2019
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Yes, one definitely has to wonder where the Pompeii library is . . . . and given that the Alexandria Egypt library was completely destroyed several hundred years later, this library could contain some of the very same texts.
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