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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
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Papyrus Scrolls - The Only Library Ever
In 1750, a farm worker who was digging a well in Herculaneum found hundreds of papyrus scrolls. People immediately tried to read them but they're really fragile and turn to ash in your hand. A professor at the University of Kentucky has been trying to scan these using increasingly advanced imaging techniques.
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