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  1. February 23, 2024, 04:24 AM #1
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    Default Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough

    First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed

    A team of student researchers has made a giant contribution to solving one of the biggest mysteries in archaeology by revealing the content of Greek writing inside a charred scroll buried 2,000 years ago by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
    ... The winning entry, announced on 5 February, reveals hundreds of words across 15 columns of text, corresponding to around 5% of a scroll. “The contest has cleared the air on all the people saying will this even work,” says Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and co-founder of the prize. “Nobody doubts that anymore.”
    Last I heard they'd only been able to read a few characters!
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  2. February 25, 2024, 08:49 AM #2
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    Default Re: Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough

    Cool. I hope it does restart investigation of the site as well to see if more scrolls can be found (as mentioned in the end of the story)
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