A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
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However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
Researchers hope to find more ancient philosophy and possibly more literature.
Research into the bodies of victims of the Vesuvius eruption show how pyroclastic flows affect the human body.
Archaeological and textual detective work is filling in some information about how ancient Romans used and thought about their sewers thousands of years ago.
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