Advances in Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls

[abaris]

I love history and spend most of my time living unashamedly in the long distant past.

I've always said, if someone created a theme park for me with a huge historically accurate set piece of life based around the Viking time and populated it with other people willing to suspend their disbelief and live as historically accurately as possible, I'd do that for the rest of my life.

I'd even be willing to give up the Internet to do it.

I'm not sure, if I really wanted to live the past, with all strings attached. The Vikings didn't exactly live in fairy land, after all and the first winter would probably kill us. I wouldn't even want to live the life of a wealthy Roman or Greek, given that I'm long past the sell by date of the time.

But I share your interest in history. Even as a child I spent hours exploring medieval and Roman ruins, trying to figure out how these people actually lived. How things might have looked like when these buildings were full of life.