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

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.

	▲	jiehong 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Actually, quite a few got partially destroyed while humans tried to physically unroll them. I suppose they must have left the worse one to hope and to us

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ldite 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Sufficiently advanced technology" indeed

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)

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efitz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s amazing that they can reconstruct any text at all from those scrolls.