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Introducing Outside/In: 'The papyrus and the volcano'
www.wbur.orgEndless Thread presents an episode from New Hampshire Public Radio's Outside/In:
While digging a well in 1750, a group of workers accidentally discovered an ancient Roman villa containing over a thousand papyrus scrolls. This was a stunning discovery: the only library from antiquity ever found in situ. But the scrolls were blackened and fragile, turned almost to ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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