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 2 hours 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
runeb 2 hours ago [-]
An unknown number of them were also allegedly burned for heat as they were mistaken for wood logs during early excavations
quotemstr 5 minutes ago [-]
Odds those were all just yet more Epicurean philosophy though?
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")
matt3210 39 minutes ago [-]
While reading, I thought it might be a 306B parameter model until I say 2000 years ago
jl6 1 hours ago [-]
Amazing work. Makes you wonder what else is out there holding a record of the past, with us too primitive to read it.
efitz 3 hours ago [-]
It’s amazing that they can reconstruct any text at all from those scrolls.
I suppose they must have left the worse one to hope and to us
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)