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    The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
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    1. chrisaldrich 16 Dec 2022
      Theonly surviving manuscripts that were actually made in the ancientworld (before around AD 500) are small fragments of papyri found ona rubbish tip in Egypt and some scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri atHerculaneum.*1

      Rubbish tip, places the author as speaking British English.

      Odd that she doesn't specifically reference the Cairo Geniza by name here.

      She's also dismissing the Dead Sea Scrolls.

      Are there other repositories of older texts missing here?

      Vesuvius Cairo Geniza Dead Sea Scrolls ancient manuscripts Villa of the Papyri Herculaneum

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