The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE). IT'S the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. With x-rays, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia pic.twitter.com/7VOKHOgymT
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The jaws of an ancient Megalodon shark that lived around 23 to 3.6 million years ago vs. a modern-day Great White. pic.twitter.com/lqLnLRMJkV
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Eiffel Tower during construction. 1887-1889. pic.twitter.com/fT4wKG1Vzz
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