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Aug. 17th, 2015 09:52 am
Aug. 17th, 2015
I love living in the future.
Aug. 17th, 2015 11:36 amThe University of Kentucky have managed to read this document:
That's a scroll that was burned sometime around 500CE, found by archaeologists decades ago. It turns out if you x-ray the fuck out of it you can get enough data to have a computer separate out the layers of the scroll and digitally "unroll" it, resulting in output that looks kind of like this:
That's Hebrew, and it begins "The LORD summoned Moses and spoke to him". It's a copy of Leviticus.
But my point is, we can read burned books, by examining the ashes.
I love living in the future.
That's a scroll that was burned sometime around 500CE, found by archaeologists decades ago. It turns out if you x-ray the fuck out of it you can get enough data to have a computer separate out the layers of the scroll and digitally "unroll" it, resulting in output that looks kind of like this:
That's Hebrew, and it begins "The LORD summoned Moses and spoke to him". It's a copy of Leviticus.
But my point is, we can read burned books, by examining the ashes.
I love living in the future.