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'Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany
Guardian UK ^
| Tue 31 Jul 2018 Last modified on Wed 1 Aug 2018
| Alison Flood
Posted on 08/01/2018 11:08:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/02/2018 7:20:07 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: z3n
I’ve never understood how almost everything ancient is under so many feet of dirt. It seems that if building on something else you would take it down to the foundations and reuse only that.
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posted on
08/02/2018 8:35:12 AM PDT
by
damper99
To: House Atreides
Good thing the Nazis didn’t find it, they would have just burned the books.
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posted on
08/02/2018 8:38:08 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: z3n
What are you talking about? The library was Roman, built by Romans, and located in a Roman city!
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posted on
08/02/2018 10:38:04 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Well that sux. Here I imagined something akin to the epic of giglamesh, but written in runic. ololort
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posted on
08/02/2018 10:40:17 AM PDT
by
z3n
To: Reily; SunkenCiv
The librarian’s name was Conan the Librarian.
To: z3n
Their non-Roman non-Celtic contemporaries were illiterates who built wattle-and-daub huts, so, not much chance of that. The Celts had Ogham. Runic didn't come along until the Middle Ages.
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posted on
08/02/2018 11:47:16 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Redcitizen
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posted on
08/02/2018 11:47:35 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Reily
Hey, if they wanted quiet, they shouldn't have handed out the free wine.
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posted on
08/02/2018 12:07:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/02/2018 12:08:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Still anxiously awaiting the results of the recovery of the burned scrolls from Pompeii.
With any luck, they will contain more than recipes or yoga exercises.
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posted on
08/02/2018 12:52:59 PM PDT
by
wildbill
(Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
To: wildbill
The most recent stuff I'd seen is under the "villaofthepapyri" keyword. :^) The scrolls had been packed, apparently part of the evacuation plan, but clearly that didn't work out. Over the past 170 or so years various nitwits have tried various brute force methods of unrolling them, and destroyed most of the texts in the process, but were able to read the resulting fragments of mostly unknown texts on Epicurean philosophy, oh boy. Not even a cookbook.
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posted on
08/02/2018 10:16:52 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: wildbill
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posted on
08/02/2018 11:25:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Redcitizen
The librarian’s name was Conan the Librarian. The late fee for a scroll has got to be a couple million denarii by now.
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posted on
08/03/2018 3:12:54 PM PDT
by
seowulf
To: seowulf
Im sure they can work out a payment plan. 4 shekels a day...
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