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Why is this on Hacker News?

• tsm 14y ago
  Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
• tzs 14y ago
  The currency of hackers is information. We are interested in its preservation and transformation. This story concerns information that, if verified, will rewrite a major aspect of the history of one of the most important men in the world's history. That such a significant thing could by lying around on a random scraps of 1600 papyrus is amazing, and makes one wonder what other things are still out there, sitting unrecognized in private collections around the world. How could that NOT be interesting to hackers?