Things I learned today at the Herculaneum papyri symposium: 1 / Antonio Piaggio invented a machine in the late 1700s to unroll burned papyri. (Lots of groans from the audience abt this.) You can see the machine in Piaggio's Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio... 2 ...

Things I learned today at the Herculaneum papyri symposium:

1 / Antonio Piaggio invented a machine in the late 1700s to unroll burned papyri. (Lots of groans from the audience abt this.) You can see the machine in Piaggio's Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...

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