Herculaneum Scrolls - NEW DISCOVERIES
781The people and method that made it possible to read texts lost for 2000 years from the carbonized papyri of Herculaneum, including the complete reading of the unpublished texts disclosed so far.
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Sources and insights:
Booras S. W., Seely D. R., Multispectral Imaging of the Herculaneum Papyri, 1999
Marchant J., First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed, 5 February 2024
Parker C. S., Parsons S., Bandy J., Chapman C., Coppens F,, Seales W. B., From invisibility to readability: Recovering the ink of Herculaneum, 2019
Seales W. B., Griffioen J., Jacops D., Virtual Conservation: Experience with Micro-CT and Manuscripts, 2010
Seales W. B., Griffioen J., Baumann R., Field M., Analysis of Herculaneum Papyri with X-ray Computed Tomography, 2011
Seales W. B., Parker C. S., Segal M., Tov E., Shor P., Porath Y., From damage to discovery via virtual unwrapping: Reading the scroll from En-Gedi, 2016
Stabile S., Palermo F., Bukreeva I., Mele D., Formoso V., Bartolino R., Cedola A., A computational platform for the virtual unfolding of Herculaneum Papyri, 2021
Vesuvius Challenge website: https://scrollprize.org/
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 First unfolding attempts
05:09 Brent Seales' proposal
08:17 The birth of the Vesuvius Challenge
13:39 Decipherment techniques
21:41 The unpublished text never read for 2000 years
26:36 The Future of the Herculaneum Scrolls
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Background Music: "Blacksmith" and "Celebration" by Alexander Nakarada (www.creatorchords.com)
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