First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...
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In Search of a Philosopher’s Stone
(Martin Bachmann) The “medicines” Diogenes hoped to use to cure the “disease” of false understanding was Epicureanism, a system of philosophy founded in the fourth century B.C. by the ...
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Badly burnt scroll digitally unwrapped to provide first look in 2,000 years
The subject was Greek Epicurean philosophy, which teaches that fulfilment can be found through the pleasure of everyday things. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds several of the ...