Events for November 26, 2024

Louisville & Lexington Sections Joint Holiday Party

Bldg: University of Louisville Golf Club, 401 Champions Way, Simpsonville, Kentucky, United States, 40067

The scrolls of Herculaneum were sealed away in 79 AD, when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum and nearby Pompeii in many meters of mud, rock, and ash. Discovered in the 18th century, these scrolls represent the only surviving library from antiquity. Charred and brittle, the scrolls are too fragile to be opened physically, ...

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