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Charred Scroll Read for the First Time in Over 2,000 Years

Tuesday, 6 February 2024, 21:45 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 13

UK Daily Mail

The famous Herculaneum scroll, charred papyrus found buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, has been deciphered by artificial intelligence.

The feat was achieved by students in the Vesuvius challenge, which used algorithms to scan the artifact that would otherwise had been destroyed if unraveled by human hands.

The winning team read more than 2,000 ‘never-before-seen’ texts that discussed sources of pleasure, such as music, the taste of capers and the color purple. More

13 Comments on Charred Scroll Read for the First Time in Over 2,000 Years

  9. AI? I wonder if it was pretrained to be focused on pleasure for the benefit of today’s ‘accepted’ train of thought?

    ‘Pleeasure’ like getting reparations for something you never experienced. Pleasure while raping, pilaging and making the white man suffer…

    Yep, it’s a stretch and most likely they are doing honest archeology.

    But one never really knows in this upside-down world we have today.

    Oh well, tomorrow’s another day in paradise. Good night all!

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  11. This will be just the beginning of reading these scrolls. There are 1,800 waiting to be deciphered in this library.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri

    There are some really important works of antiquity that are only hinted at in other sources.
    Just look at the works we know about but that we have no copy of today.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work

    There may be important works we’ve never even heard of in this collection as well.

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