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A salon for Virgil. (Herculaneum)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19890812
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Herculaneum

A salon for Virgil

HAVING drilled down through 88 feet of solid lava rock, some four miles east of Naples, in 1752, diggers brought to the surface what was to be the first of about 2,000 carbonised papyrus rolls. The trove was part of the library of an unknown great house that came to be called the Villa dei Papiri, buried under the same eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed (and preserved) Pompeii. For many years now, a Naples University workshop has been entrusted with unrolling and interpreting the charred and tissue-thin scrolls; and at a meeting in Pisa at ...

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