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February 13, 2005: H-P Computer Guy to Fund Dig for Lost Roman Library
"Philanthropist David W. Packard has stepped forward to fund excavations at the ancient city of Herculaneum in Italy, where scholars believe a Roman library lies buried beneath 90ft of lava from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79."
