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I just saw this youtube short from aussie youtuber
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The Herculaneum Scolls....
Watching a documentary on TV right now about this, but here's a good article that explains it.
www.smithsonianmag.com
When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it covered not just art and humans in well preserved states, but also a library of ancient literature.
They found like a thousand charred scrolls in the 1800s but many were thought to be just bits of charcoal and thrown into the ocean (idiots). But they eventually realized they were charred papyrus scrolls.
For the following 200+ years tho it's been impossible to open them they crumble like fragile butterfly wings.
Fpr 20 years an American computer scientist invented a machine that can potentially virtually unravel the scrolls....a machine/ai that can decipher faint carbon-based ink from papyrus that has been itself carbonized.
Anyway it's still mostly a mystery, tall task.
Watching a documentary on TV right now about this, but here's a good article that explains it.
Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia
A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization
When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it covered not just art and humans in well preserved states, but also a library of ancient literature.
They found like a thousand charred scrolls in the 1800s but many were thought to be just bits of charcoal and thrown into the ocean (idiots). But they eventually realized they were charred papyrus scrolls.
For the following 200+ years tho it's been impossible to open them they crumble like fragile butterfly wings.
Fpr 20 years an American computer scientist invented a machine that can potentially virtually unravel the scrolls....a machine/ai that can decipher faint carbon-based ink from papyrus that has been itself carbonized.
Anyway it's still mostly a mystery, tall task.
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