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adriandtoday at 5:21 PM4 repliesview on HN

What are the wildest, most exciting but plausible things that might be discovered in these documents?


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verditelabstoday at 5:34 PM

I am not a papyrologist or a classicist, rather I'm a computer scientist, so my expertise is unfortunately not in _what_ the scrolls say, rather how we get there. That being said I think and hope that there will be a trove of things that has no known provenance at all, completely lost works that elude the public memory.

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GeoAtreidestoday at 7:54 PM

Aristotle's second book of Poetics, of course.

colechristensentoday at 6:01 PM

Here's a list. The scrolls are from a library that burned in 79 AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_literary_works

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suddenlybananastoday at 5:43 PM

Probably a lot more texts of Epicurean philosophy and not a whole lot else unfortunately according to my papyrologist friend.

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