Sure, but its the potential scale that is important. There are also more scrolls still in the ground, which would make sense to dig out if they could be read.
replyOf course! But the title is misleading and gives people the impression that we don't already know the library is just full of Epicurean texts.
replyI think it's a case of HN once again butchering the title. I submitted it as the exact title from our page on scrollprize.org, "An _Entire_ Herculaneum Scroll Has Been Read For The First Time", which is IIRC true.
replyIt's also technically incorrect. The texts have been read; this particular text was read for the first time in the modern era.
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