I love the human sense (or vision) that we could find these in the 1750s as carbonized logs and know that we should keep and protect them - that we miiiiight be able to read them someday.

• jiehong

  today at 5:11 PM

  Actually, quite a few got partially destroyed while humans tried to physically unroll them.

  I suppose they must have left the worse one to hope and to us

  • runeb

    today at 5:18 PM

    An unknown number of them were also allegedly burned for heat as they were mistaken for wood logs during early excavations

"Sufficiently advanced technology" indeed

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws)

• embedding-shape

  today at 5:28 PM

  I wonder how many many "experts" fell into the trap of calling the reading of those scrolls "impossible" through the years? ("When a distinguished but elderly scientist states [...] that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong")

Amazing work. Makes you wonder what else is out there holding a record of the past, with us too primitive to read it.

Pherc 306B A12B when?

It’s amazing that they can reconstruct any text at all from those scrolls.