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15 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent
“I’m a little perplexed about this project, not least because it seems as though many of these works we have, some of them will doubtlessly be new—obviously, I’d prefer we spent more time on the millions and millions of papyri that exist in museum collections and libraries around the world that haven’t yet been published, which relate to the activities of ordinary Romans, rather than spending millions and hopefully not undertaking unnecessary excavations for a few admittedly very sexy, but ultimately, I think, not game-changing papyri in that villa.”
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…What would you most like to learn from the Vesuvius Challenge scrolls? They’re being deciphered using AI. Yes. Well, frankly, not very much, actually. I’m a little perplexed about this project, not least because it seems as though many of these works we have, some of them will doubtlessly be new—obviously, I’d prefer we spent more time on the millions and millions of papyri that exist in museum collections and libraries around the world that haven’t yet been published, which relate to the activities of ordinary Romans, rather than spending millions and hopefully not undertaking unnecessary excavations for a few admittedly very sexy, but ultimately, I think, not game-changing papyri in that villa. Sorry. Say there’s a lost book by Aristotle in there.…
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