[ExI] Herculaneum scroll revealed

[Darin Sunley]

Remember, though, data can't defend itself, and you have /no idea/ who or
what may be waking up your brains can for what purposes.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2024, 3:44 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> And these are the same people who doubt that we'll ever be able to
> scan cryogenically frozen brains... This is only going to get better
> with time. Too bad they've destroyed so many of the scrolls thinking
> that they were too far gone to get anything out of. Seems the same
> thing as people dying and not being preserved.
>
> -Kelly
>
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 1:13 PM BillK via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is amazing! They have managed to read the charred Herculaneum
> > scroll from the Vesuvius eruption.
> >
> > <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00346-8>
> > Quotes:
> > 05 February 2024
> > First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed
> > Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of
> > 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and
> > capers.
> > By Jo Marchant
> >
> > A team of student researchers has made a giant contribution to solving
> > one of the biggest mysteries in archaeology by revealing the content
> > of Greek writing inside a charred scroll buried 2,000 years ago by the
> > eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
> > --------------------
> >
> > BillK
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