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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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Anyone watch this super mega ancient civilisations debate between Hancock and a strange little man called Flint Dibble?
Every minute of those 4 hours 23 mins is magical. Never has so much been discussed with so much contempt in the air.
Every minute of those 4 hours 23 mins is magical. Never has so much been discussed with so much contempt in the air.
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Hancock is full of chit always has been.
"We don't have time to go right into this", that's his answer to all hard questions.
I always thought Grahame read "chariots of the gods' and has tried to copy it.
"We don't have time to go right into this", that's his answer to all hard questions.
I always thought Grahame read "chariots of the gods' and has tried to copy it.
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I agree.
I was very disappointed in his retorts to little Indy.
After 30 Years of dismissal he finally gets his chance to debate a genuine archeologist and state his case.
All we heard were crickets.
“ you haven’t explored enough sites around the globe” was one of his most repeated replies.
lil Indy shoots off a long list of excavation sites numbered in the 10s of thousands and those facts barely register with Hancock.
I think he was in complete shock from
about 10 mins in couldn’t counter the avalanche of data that Dibble delivered.
