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cm0002@toast.ooo to Science@mander.xyz · 2 days ago

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

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cm0002@toast.ooo to Science@mander.xyz · 2 days ago
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PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
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    Very awesome!

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    A victory for open, global science

    I could weep reading this. It’s such a beautiful, pure project, retrieving words of wisdom from past millennia. Not for profit, but because they can. And now the tech is there for anyone with the skills to decipher hundred of other scrolls. Might be recipes for garum, might be poetry, might be complaints about copper, who knows!

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    Did the readers go blind after learning some future prophecy?

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      No but they died laughing from the power of an old Latin joke

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    Is this the same scroll they mentioned on Josh Gates show a while back?

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