Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI

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• artwork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Based on the handwriting style, Nicolardi thinks that PHerc. 1667 dates to the second or third century B.C.E., which would make it one of the oldest scrolls in the library. The title and author have been lost to history, but experts suspect it wasn’t written by Philodemus. Perhaps, they theorize, Chrysippus was the author.

  Chrysippus was a foundational figure in Stoicism, but modern scholars only know of his writings from references in other works. “To have access to a source text rather than quotes and summaries, which can be modified or interpreted by other writers, is very important,” Thomas Coward, a classicist at the University of Bristol in England who isn’t part of the Vesuvius Challenge, tells New Scientist’s Hayley Bennett.

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  Thank you very much…
  Ineffably marvelous…

  Related: lemmy.world/post/48672397 (Scientists reveal secrets of ancient scrolls burned by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago…)

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• Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That is fucking sick. Even machine assisted, decyphering burnt scrolls seems like a near perfect way to induce cluster headaches.

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