Reading the Herculaneum Papyri

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On this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Dr. Federica Nicolardi and I discuss the challenges of reading scrolls charred and buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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Chapters:
0:00 Discovery of the scrolls
3:23 Opened and unopened
5:17 How to handle charred papyrus
9:11 New texts
13:17 Philodemus of Gadara
16:04 Epicurean philosophy
20:20 The library in the Villa of the Papyri
24:05 The Vesuvius Challenge
25:56 Progress so far...
28:44 The newest text
30:06 What comes next
34:20 What's still buried?

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