Writing seen in PHerc. 306B, for the first time in 2000 years

(scrollprize.substack.com)

54 points | by benbreen 21 hours ago

3 comments

  • baoooooooooooo 2 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.
  • ldite 20 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.