Imaging the carbonized papyri from Herculaneum.

The only surviving ancient library is preserved in the form of over a thousand papyrus rolls from a large aristocratic villa on the bay of Naples at Herculaneum in Italy, all of them carbonized in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. An international team of investigators is currently involved in a pr...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 159 - 163
Main Author:	Obbink, D
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA 1997
Subjects:	Papyrus manuscripts Digital images Digital cameras Bodleian Library Library software
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost