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Pompeii breakthrough as ancient scroll finally deciphered after 2,000 years
Express UK ^ | Apr 18, 2024 | Richard Ashmore

Posted on 04/18/2024 3:58:01 PM PDT by mairdie

A £560,000 prize was on offer for scholars who could read the ancient Roman texts buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.

Scrolls cocooned in volcanic ash that consumed the Roman city of Pompeii have been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years.

Using AI researchers were able to discern some meaning from the writings which were discovered in the doomed ancient Italian city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.

...In a statement the Vesuvius Challenge revealed some of the information hidden until now in the scrolls which appear to be philosophical treatises concerning pleasure and abundance.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: aideciphering; ancienttexts; archaeology; archeology; epicurianphilosophy; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; herculaneum; history; pompeii; romanempire; rome; vesuvius; villaofthepapyri
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To: Kartographer

A crummy commercial?


21 posted on 04/18/2024 4:49:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s always sex or what they had for breakfast.


22 posted on 04/18/2024 4:50:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth me, just .because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: mairdie

Ring around the rosey
Apocket full of posies
Ashes ashes we all fall down


23 posted on 04/18/2024 4:56:19 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: BenLurkin
Just WHY do you believe that you and such comments, on serious threads, are "clever" and/or funny"?

They add less than nothing at all to threads and are just diminish the thread.

And before you claim that I don't have a sense of humor...I have a GREAT sense of humor; however, what you wrote was unfunny worthless dross.

24 posted on 04/18/2024 5:11:32 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: BullwinkleMoose
Little known fact: the scrolls were found in the closet of Hilarius Clintonum, wife of Willumus Clintonum, were they had been kept secretly for years.

I wish people would stop with the sensationalism. Of the 300,000 scrolls that were actually located in in Herculaneum, only 290,000 of them were actually government scrolls. That means that only a fraction of the total number of scrolls were associated with the government.

Moreover, it's totally irresponsible to associate Persian scrolls recovered from the recently discovered royal tombs in Persia from the same time period that talk about "what a treasure Hilarius's bathroom is for advancing the Persian empire. Make sure you leave the gold payment next to the toilet baisin." with the fact that the scrolls were found in what might to first glance appear to be Hilarius and Willumus's bathing chamber. Oddly, the scrolls were moderately discolored as if someone had tried to apply urea to them as an ancient form of bleach....

(On an unrelated note, the female body found underneath Willumus's separate bed chamber clearly has nothing to do with anything, especially not with claims that Jeff's Epsteinius "tamen non pendet ipse" that the unnamed female who probably came from a chariot park in Moesia may or may not have written on the walls of her very comfortable secure room with no doors).

25 posted on 04/18/2024 5:16:39 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: BlackVeil

Just amazing to have deciphered it.


26 posted on 04/18/2024 5:22:23 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: mairdie

Vote for Pedro.


27 posted on 04/18/2024 5:46:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: nopardons; BenLurkin

Here’s a double quote character.-> “ <- I know how serious you are, surely you know the cosmic quote character charge conservation law wherein all quotes in the universe must balance, and this will rectify the matter. You can thank me later, the universe not crumbling is enough thanks for me. Seriously.


28 posted on 04/18/2024 5:58:29 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: FateAmenableToChange

LTIC (laughed til I choked)


29 posted on 04/18/2024 6:02:24 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: mairdie
It says, "My uncle was eaten by cannibals!"

-PJ

30 posted on 04/18/2024 6:06:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: mairdie

Google Translate does a really bad job with Latin. I have my doubts about this one.


31 posted on 04/18/2024 7:43:41 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Jonty30

or Beware of Dog.” (”Cave canem”)


32 posted on 04/18/2024 7:50:16 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: nopardons

33 posted on 04/18/2024 8:06:04 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


34 posted on 04/18/2024 8:07:28 PM PDT by GOPJ (Two items Biden finds at 'Ice Cream Shoppes'? A: Ice cream cones and 7 year old girls to look at...)
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To: Liz

Haynes Manual for Chariot XXI Maintenance


35 posted on 04/18/2024 8:19:13 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: GOPJ
"Ova domum aut canis domum adferte."

(Bring eggs home or it's the doghouse you go.)

Because some things are eternal.

36 posted on 04/18/2024 9:40:32 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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To: MikelTackNailer
"Ova domum aut canis domum adferte."

LOL

37 posted on 04/19/2024 4:07:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Two items Biden finds at 'Ice Cream Shoppes'? A: Ice cream cones and 7 year old girls to look at...)
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To: GOPJ; mairdie
Thanks!
The rest of the Villa of the Papyri keyword, sorted 'n' stuff:

38 posted on 04/19/2024 6:43:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BenLurkin

RE: Post #5

I really wish FreeRepublic had a like button or laugh emoji.

Well done.


39 posted on 04/19/2024 4:06:23 PM PDT by Tailback
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To: mairdie

Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma


40 posted on 04/21/2024 3:14:38 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("There should have been an age and risk stratification approach." still true)
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