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kingkawn
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How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-O...
Feels like a desecration
staplor
on Dec 13, 2019
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I disagree. What's the point of having a scroll if you are unable to read it? Now it is in a form(digital) to last another thousand years.
kingkawn
on Dec 14, 2019
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Because it is an object from our ancestors. And the digital form will probably be destroyed long before you imagine since it’s accessibility is dependent on an industrial system remaining stable enough to deliver it
microcolonel
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I think it'd be interesting if they tried to read it with some form of tomography.
habi
on Dec 13, 2019
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They did, see here:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247
and also this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21778794
yorwba
on Dec 13, 2019
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That's a different scroll.
habi
on Dec 13, 2019
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Sure, but 'reading an old scroll with tomography' has been done...
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