“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.................
Herculaneum and Pompeii are two different places some distance apart. Pompeii was a serious commercial center, Herculaneum was a smaller seaside resort. The scrolls are from a buried library discovered some time ago at Herculaneum. They would have quickly burned at Pompeii.
It really makes you wish they hadn’t completely destroyed so many of the burned scrolls in the 19th century to unwrap a tiny little bit.
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> The three students, from Egypt, Switzerland and the US… <
Wait a minute. None of them are Italian. So what business do they have reading Roman scrolls? This sure looks like cultural appropriation to me.
Somebody ought to contact somebody over this.
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... The general subject of the text is pleasure, which, properly understood, is the highest good in Epicurean philosophy. ...Destroyed AD 79.
Awesome!
The linked article in nature gives a much better explanation of how the scanning and deciphering process worked.
Its nonetheless simply amazing that computer-science students could train an AI model to form the patterns of a CT scan into letters and words.
It is amazing to realize that the “ancients” were really no different from modern culture, only separated by technology. Rome was the epitome of technology for its day. Society then, survived without refridgeration, (which I claim is the greatest invention of all time versus flight and automobiles).
What do you all think is the single greatest invention of all mankind?
Radio?
Printing Press?
Vaccines?
Internal Combustion Engine?
Compass?
iPhone?
Have at it. It is the simpliest of questions, yet a difficult answer. I posed the question to my wife and she had difficulty coming up with the answer.
How did I arrive at refridgeration as the greatest invention of all mankind? My faither told me when I was a little one. If he said it, it must be true!
So we can decode these scrolls but not Hillary/Epstein/etc emails….,,
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Very interesting & worthwhile read, thanks for sharing. 🙂 👍
Lets hope it is better at the right answer than Chat GPT.
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