#NaPoWriMo Day 28 : Based On A True Story, or Not.

Prompt : News Article
Ancient Herculaneum


The lost works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. In the Renaissance,
The Ancient Herculaneum became.

Mosaic scrolls in monastic libraries.
A chic resort town on the Bay of Naples.

Scrolls, scrolls
The first one took around four years to unroll.
To unlock the scrolls of Herculaneum led to them turning asunder.

Under normal light the charred paper looks "a shiny black"
The ink so dull black and somewhat iridescence
Moving the fragments to catch the light in different ways,
some few letters can be made out.
Some pieces, the eye can make out nothing.

Black lines on a pale grey background,
Black dust of the scroll powdering.
Orphan fragments make a text
Black dust on the table
Letters began to jump out of the ancient papyrus.
Black ink
on
black paper

Blinded by the real readings the lost dialogues of Aristotle?
Not quite. What further scrolls remain there still?
 More in the Villa waiting to be discovered…
Soon.
Soon we shall be able to re-read the ancient scrolls.