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(1) About 2000 years ago, Mt. Vesuvius in southern Italy exploded, carbonizing a private library in Herculaneum. The papyrus scrolls are extremely fragile and many have been damaged. Using technology similar to a CAT scan, two specialists have been able to look through the scrolls, one page at a time. (2) William Culverville, a British miner in the Cariboo mining district of British Columbia, skedaddled (i.e., escaped debts) to Nevada. While driving a stagecoach, he saw an opportunity to begin a ranch, which later became the city of Caliente, Nevada.
Produced in 2016 by Archaeological Legacy Institute
Copyright 2016 by Archaeological Legacy Institute
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Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last (Smithsonian Magazine)
Bonepicker: Gold Rush Backstories
Bonepicker: Gold Rush Backstories (Facebook)
Friends of Barkerville (Cariboo Goldfields Historical Society)
Herculaneum papyri (Wikipedia)
MEL Films (Vimeo)
WOULD SAY WOULD FALL (MEL Films)
MEL Magazine (Facebook)