Okay, I admit it, I still have a few scrolls here in the office but in my defense Archimedes sent me out to find a "Lever long enough"  so he could win a bet. And the last time I saw Pythagoras he was trying to find a place to stand.  Brumpump

You can read about all this in the  Archimedes Palimpsest although it is a little hard to read with all those monks scraping off the original writings and converting to religious text.

I wonder if so many of the great Libraries of the ancient world had not been destroyed, would we have some great knowledge that has been long overlooked.  Or if they had destroyed the Imperial Library in Constantinople more effectively would be have been spared the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer and such.  For example piecing together all the writings of the Bible and their authenticity, how great would that be or would there be more writings that have been destroyed.

I actually liked the stories, it was just that Brother Louis ( always pronounced LooWEEE!) made us read them in Latin. (Today our kids don't even know there is a future pluperfect, they might think someone was describing their hoped for date for the big dance.) 

Imagine you found scrolls and could not interpret them.  In New Grange in Ireland, they have tablets that have never been interpreted and no one knows how they moved such massive rocks 500 miles with no heavy machinery. And their ability to make the sun light up the one tablet only on one day, the Winter Solstice. 

If we ever invent Time Travel  (it will be by Apple so they will call it iTravel of course) we can send someone back to those old libraries with an iPhone to take massive amounts of photos. All right who speaks Latin and Greek so we can start assembling the team? Fred has French and I am sure Latin down. Larry knows what the menu says in Greek Restaurants.  I have no skill set but I could loan them my flashlight and a lot of batteries.


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