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    Author: * Laurels Curius - 4 Posts on this thread out of 2,713 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Feb 25, 2004 - 10:48

    In looking I found some interesting links:

    Eduplace history archive - really good but short clip about the findings up to the text analysis (ie; it leaves off there)

    Pompeii and Herculaneum revealed really great site

    And here we have photos! and it lists Brigham Young uni as the one that is aiding the Naples scientists into getting the ink to stand out enough to translate. I think I got confused on the university handling it, as someone from the uni of MI was involved and that's all I remembered :o)

    "Here (l to r) Jeffrey Fish of Baylor University, Dirk Obbink of Oxford University, and James Porter of the University of Michigan are engaged in the patient work of reading the scrolls under microscopes. " -excerpt from photo explanation taken from above site

    Looks like we could have fully translated copies soon!


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