Valorie Castellanos Clark on Substack: "Big breakthrough on the Herculaneum Papyri! The first word was decoded: ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑϹ (porphyras) meaning ‘purple cloth’ or ‘clothes of purple.’ Considering that a single pound of purple dye cost roughly half an ancient Roman soldier's annual salary, this is very intriguing These …"

Big breakthrough on the Herculaneum Papyri! The first word was decoded: ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑϹ (porphyras) meaning ‘purple cloth’ or ‘clothes of purple.’ Considering that a single pound of purple dye cost roughly half an ancient Roman soldier's annual salary, this is very intriguing

These ancient scrolls were housed in the library of a private villa near Pompeii, where they were buried and carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. They haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years. Who knows what information they might contain?

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Oct 12, 2023