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

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• baoooooooooooo 52 minutes ago
  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.
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  • jiehong 46 minutes ago
    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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    • runeb 39 minutes ago
      An unknown number of them were also allegedly burned for heat as they were mistaken for wood logs during early excavations
• jl6 22 minutes ago
  Amazing work. Makes you wonder what else is out there holding a record of the past, with us too primitive to read it.
• ldite 1 hour ago
  "Sufficiently advanced technology" indeed

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

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  • embedding-shape 28 minutes ago
    I wonder how many many "experts" fell into the trap of calling the reading of those scrolls "impossible" through the years? ("When a distinguished but elderly scientist states [...] that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong")
• v3ss0n 18 minutes ago
  Pherc 306B A12B when?
• efitz 1 hour ago
  It’s amazing that they can reconstruct any text at all from those scrolls.