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Speaking of volcanoes.

And now they figured out with modern techniques how to read the burnt scrolls.

And it is supposedly the biggest...

library of classical text ever.

It was like double the amount of classical text we have.

As a scholar of ancient Rome, what would you personally find most fascinating?

What are you excited to find from this data?

So I wonder if it's like the Greeks had a science but not the people to sustain a modern economy, or not a modern, but even a sort of like industrial economy, and then the Romans had the people but not the science.

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Let's turn to another one of your books, the one about slavery in the Roman world.

I did not realize before I read that one how central—I mean, how much Rome was a slave society.

I guess that just isn't a salient thing in a sort of conventional understanding of Rome.

Yeah, but why don't you paint us a picture of how much slavery was involved in the Roman world?