To: wildbill
from 2005.
The scrolls were in crates and it appears that slaves were removing them from the libraries when they were inundated with ash from the eruption.
They were buried by pyroclastic flow, not ash, afaik.
46 posted on
03/23/2016 3:58:06 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
well, at 1000 degrees C, that probably rules out much in the way of residual info on them.
47 posted on
03/23/2016 9:10:31 PM PDT by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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