The "classical holy grail"

Whether or not a second library turns up at Herculaneum, we can already look forward to an explosion of previously unknown classical works, thanks to highy-tech methods being used to unlock the secrets of papyrus scraps recoered from an ancient rubbish dump in central Egypt.

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