Mastodawn

We read an entire scroll — without ever opening it

PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end.

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll

More information about the Herculaneum Papyrus Scrolls project:
https://www2.cs.uky.edu/dri/herculaneum-papyrus-scrolls/

#books #literature #old_Manuscripts

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teledyn 𓂀 1d ago

@gutenberg_org

"Crucially, all of this is open. The tomographic data, reconstructed surfaces and transcriptions are released under a Creative Commons licence at scrollprize.org/data and archived at the ESRF, and the code is on GitHub. Anyone can check the work, build on it, and apply it to the scrolls that remain."

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Carlos Solís 1d ago

The NC clause unfortunately means the project is not technically open, but it's better than nothing

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Unredacted Epstein files now 1d ago

@gutenberg_org Finally, some good news.