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TIL: More than 1,800 antique papyrus scrolls from 79 AD were preserved by being carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius - some contained hitherto lost works and the efforts to read them ar... (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So many researchers destroyed scrolls in the 1800's by trying to unwrap them with various techniques.

Today all methods to decipher the scrolls cause no damage, but I can't help but wonder if we are inadvertently causing damage that we haven't conceived of.