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Feels like a desecration

• microcolonel 7y ago
  I think it'd be interesting if they tried to read it with some form of tomography.
  • habi 7y ago
    They did, see here: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247 and also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21778794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21778794
    • yorwba 7y ago
      That's a different scroll.
      • habi 7y ago
        Sure, but 'reading an old scroll with tomography' has been done...
• staplor 7y ago
  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 7y ago
    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