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Re:Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says by tokai on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:14AM (#32591740)
Not under sand but the Villa of the Papyri is the best bet. Potentially thousands of rolls, definitely containing lost works. They just need to solve the xray scan and digital unfolding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri

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Re:Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says by habi on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:07PM (#32598481)
The "xray scan and digital unfolding" has been solved.

Here's a short video about the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GduCExxB0vw and here's the related publication: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601247

I've had the pleasure to meet one of the authors of the study at a user meeting of the x-ray scanners they use, since I also work with such machines. It's a fascinating study!

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