| ▲ | verditelabs 5 hours ago |
| We've been trying to automate since the beginning. A lot of it is automated but it's mostly the easier and less damaged parts of the scrolls. Scanning takes a few days for the biggest scrolls but the amount of human refinement is still a multi month process. |
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| ▲ | fph 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Random shower thought: I wonder if it would be better in the long term to stop digging out archeological findings. The more we excavate, the more damage we do for future archaeologists who will have the superpower of reading these texts without even needing to dig the scrolls free and open them. |
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| ▲ | kylemaxwell an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Archaeologists think about this a lot. Many digs leave portions intact specifically so that future scientists, with access to techniques and technologies beyond what's available now, can research them. | |
| ▲ | Centigonal 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There is an active debate on exactly this topic when it comes to whether or not to excavate the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Qin_Shi_Huang | |
| ▲ | flir 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Modern archaeologists are painfully aware that theirs is a destructive science, and do their best to mitigate that. The most extreme example is probably the tomb of the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, where official policy on excavation can be boiled down to "not yet". | |
| ▲ | verditelabs 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | We stand on the shoulders of those that came before us. People have been trying to unroll and read the scrolls for 250 some odd years now. Had they not laid the groundwork for all that time we wouldn't be making the progress we are now. |
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| ▲ | NoMoreNicksLeft an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How many scrolls are intact (worldwide, rather than just France) that might still be recoverable? |
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| ▲ | verditelabs a few seconds ago | parent [-] | | IIRC 99% of all of the existing scrolls are still in Italy's possession. I think the breakdown is something like ~350 are mostly in tact, another ~1000 are damaged but still "scroll like", and the remaining hundreds are shattered fragments. |
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| ▲ | itsthecourier 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| may you please tell us how much effort goes into each type of task in those months? where else do you think these techniques be applied? |
