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and here’s a weirdly double exposed mt etna

#you will see more of mt etna btw.#double exposure #35mm #vilfposting #beeps

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour

Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden text covering more than a metre of charred papyrus without physically unrolling the scroll. The work discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour and dates to the second or late-third century BC. The age of the scroll, named PHerc 1667, makes it one of the oldest in a collection of hundreds recovered from the library of a luxury Roman villa in Herculaneum that was blasted by heat and buried under ash in the volcanic eruption that destroyed nearby Pompeii in AD79. Much of the Herculaneum library was dominated by Philodemus of Gadara, a Epicurean philosopher and poet in the first century BC. But while the title and author of PHerc 1667 remain unknown, its older age and contents point to another author. Analysis by Nicolardi and her colleagues suggests the text is a stoic treatise, perhaps authored by the Greek philosopher Chrysippus.

#i feel on the verge of tears. HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #FIRST FULLY UNROLLED AND READABLE SCROLL??????#AND IT'S NOT PHILODEMUS!!!#villa of the papyri #vilfposting #a lock against oblivion #vesuvius challenge #beeps

saw The Spectre up mt etna yesterday :D

#vilfposting #beeps

tagged by @marxism-ex-solium and @sextuspompey to post 6 non-selfie pictures 👍

books catalogued by an owl / gus plotting a cardboard box ambush / mt etna flank craters / sticking my hand in a vent on etna to reverse raynauds #lifehack / illustration of a victorian cloak that can be inflated into a boat / earring charm i superglued back together this morning

i tag @ernest-shackleton @twinkbasement @catoneuticense @alethiometer @ranilla-bean and @adhdo5 :-) go my scarabs

#meme thing #vilfposting #beeps