“The technique has revealed several regions of interest. “Several textual portions of up to fourteen lines were identified for the first time, the largest ever detected so far in unopened papyrus rolls,” say Bukreeva and co.
That’s fascinating work that opens the way to more virtual unrollings. As Bukreeva and co put it: “The optimisation and the automatisation of the virtual unfolding procedure open up new perspectives in this direction, which are likely to produce a future breakthrough in our knowledge and understanding of ancient philosophy and classical literature.”
Folks.
This is huge.
To put it in perspective, the new Sappho poem (58) is “only” twelve lines and it rocked our goddamned worlds.
If they’ve now got the tech to pull fourteen line chunks from these scrolls with any regularity, things are about to go bananas.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
First ‘virtual’ unrolling of ancient scroll buried by Vesuvius reveals early text
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