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

69 points • by benbreen • yesterday at 7:18 PM • 8 comments • view on HN

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baoooooooooooo • today at 5:05 PM

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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ldite • today at 4:46 PM

"Sufficiently advanced technology" indeed

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

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jl6 • today at 5:34 PM

Amazing work. Makes you wonder what else is out there holding a record of the past, with us too primitive to read it.

v3ss0n • today at 5:39 PM

Pherc 306B A12B when?

efitz • today at 4:00 PM

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