A Gladiator's Marble-Etched Epitaph Is Found in an Ancient Roman Necropolis(smithsonianmag.com)

4 points by bryanrasmussen 1 year ago | 0 comments

Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton(arstechnica.com)

84 points by nobody9999 2 years ago | 24 comments

Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll(scrollprize.substack.com)

264 points by leocassarani 1 year ago | 25 comments

Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win(arstechnica.com)

461 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 403 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive had to remove about 500,000 books from its lending library after publishers won their copyright lawsuit.

A Winelike Sea(laphamsquarterly.org)

59 points by jelliclesfarm 3 years ago | 40 comments

Darwin Online has virtually reassembled the naturalist's personal library(arstechnica.com)

34 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 1 comments