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Posted by benbreen 21 hours ago

Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years(scrollprize.substack.com)
58 points | 4 comments
baoooooooooooo 7 minutes ago|
I love the human sense (or vision) that we could find these in the 1750s as carbonized logs and know that we should keep and protect them - that we miiiiight be able to read them someday.
jiehong 54 seconds ago|
Actually, quite a few got partially destroyed while humans tried to physically unroll them.

I suppose they must have left the worse one to hope and to us

ldite 25 minutes ago||
"Sufficiently advanced technology" indeed

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)

efitz 1 hour ago|
It’s amazing that they can reconstruct any text at all from those scrolls.