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The majority of classical texts referred to by other classical authors are lost, and there is hope that the continuing work on the library scrolls will discover some of these. For example, as many as 44 works discovered were written by the 1st-century BC Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus , a resident of Herculaneum, who possibly formed ...
ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...
PHerc. Paris. 4 is a carbonized scroll of papyrus, dating to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.Part of a corpus known as the Herculaneum papyri, it was buried by hot-ash in the Roman city of Herculaneum during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
These scrolls became known as the Herculaneum papyri or scrolls, the majority of which are today stored at the National Library, Naples. Although badly carbonized, a number of scrolls have been unrolled with varying degrees of success. Computer-enhanced multi-spectral infrared imaging helped make the ink legible.
CurseForge is a service created by Curse that hosts user generated content such as plugins, add-ons and mods for video games. CurseForge hosts content for Minecraft: Java Edition, World of Warcraft, The Sims 4, StarCraft II, and Kerbal Space Program, among other games. It is currently owned and operated by Overwolf. CurseForge offers authors ...
The caves are located about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) west of the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, whence the scrolls derive their name. Archaeologists have long associated the scrolls with the ancient Jewish sect known as the Essenes , although some recent interpretations have challenged this connection and argue that priests in Jerusalem or ...
Some resources for more complete information on the Dead Sea Scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" [6] for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book [7] and the Leon Levy Collection, [8] both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for ...
Text rewritten on flyleaf, two lines lost, title in Greek. 02: 2: The Apocryphon of James (The Secret Book of James) 1–16: Ap. Jas. The title is based on the content of the text, which takes the form of a letter from James to an addressee whose name is not mentioned. Most of the text is a dialogue between Jesus and the unnamed apostles. 03: 3