Herculaneum Scrolls: Unraveling History | Breakthrough

[@quentinstacy35]

There's been a further breakthrough as now there is a competition (The Vesuvius Challenge) to read the scrolls. Luke Farritor, one of the contestants is now starting to read the scrolls. Super exciting topic.

[@wirelessone2986]

The problem is competition,one man has had the capability for years until greedy Italian scientists wanted their name in lights and started politics to stonewall the guy that could do it.

[@prayermanone]

Find well-educated reincarnated people who recall living in antiquity and have them remember their study and reading of the ancient scrolls that they recall reading. This would be one way to find and retrieve ancient unknown literature.

[@senses70]

Just breathtaking. These scrolls are invaluable to unravel more about the lives and thoughts of the ancient world. I’ve been obsessed with those for many years and I’m so exited that the evolution of technology over the recent years has permitted a huge leap forward to eventually decipher the oldest “surviving” library in the world. The newest advances of AI will do just that. I’m sure of it now. It will be historic. It’s been 2000 years… but I can’t wait!!!

[@goldenacres3269]

I have been waiting for this progress for decades. I think there are lower levels of the library yet to be uncovered. Now that the technology to read the scrolls has been developed, perhaps they will find some of the missing Greek plays.

[@gerritpeacock8949]

That's what I was thinking. There are several plays that surround the trojan war that are part of the epic cycle. We know through writings that comment on these plays, but they have so far been lost.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

​@@gerritpeacock8949I want them to find the account of the voyage of the seas. Where they took a trip all the way beyond the land of the picts. And traveled nearly too the North Pole

[@RCSVirginia]

@@gerritpeacock8949 Yes, most Greek plays that we know of due to their being mentioned in other writings have been lost. What we have is only a small fraction of what once existed.

[@scottzema3103]

Fascinating. Get the rest of the scrolls out of the ground before Vesuvius erupts again! Another possible application is to try to read and image the squarish lumps of white plaster that used to be Mayan books that are pulled from ancient tombs. Sounds like the same principles may be used to read these objects, which are folding books made of painted plaster, and the ability to add another book to the five or so only known to have survived the Spanish Conquest would be exciting.

[@Svensk7119]

After that, all the books in the Library of Congress that are too fragile to be read.

[@meemo32086]

Oh I love that!!

[@OddlyBoBo7]

​@@Svensk7119 The Vatican library also.

[@jeffreybrannen9465]

Perhaps this will spark a renewed interest in classical languages. I’m personally hoping for Ancient Greek documents, maybe much closer to the time of Alexander

[@عليفالح-غ2ح]

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[@prayermanone]

Find the reincarnated scholars who wrote the old scrolls, regress them to their ancient past lives and have them read back and write down what they wrote centuries ago. It would be a way to recover long lost literatures.

[@castletown999]

A pretty good video utterly destoyed by "background" music that is actually in the foreground. Can you remix these videos without the "music"?

[@richardwohlers5245]

Music is annoying and makes the narrator hard to understand

[@shaldana]

The 'new' thing with media these days: Narrate something but have a pile of music. We don't need the music. Those of us who are hard of hearing can't hear a damned thing and the music adds absolutely nothing anyway. Ruins what could be an excellent video.

[@hopelessnerd6677]

I don't think anybody knows how to mix audio anymore. It's a lost art. They just check the box that says "background music" and let it fly. No duck under at all. Soooooo many documentaries are ruined by the loud techno track that's typically as loud as the narrator. Besides James Burke and David Attenborough, there hasn't been a watchable documentary in decades.

[@jpt3640]

It's about adding drama to a rather boring narrative. At least that is what the editor believed. I totally hate it. There are a lot of yt channels, that do not use this technique and people enjoy it. It's something coming from the TV world. And one cause why we don't watch TV any more.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Your generation grew up being "too audiophile" your ears are begining to fall apart. I never listen to music. I never wear headphones & my volume is always low. I use the regular phone speaker. Nothing more. It sounds perfect. I promise you that everyone that loves loud music, & all the toys that come with it are the only ones that would even use the terms "foreground" music. I can't tell the difference & never have. I've never let sound get THAT close to me. Maybe take a step back

[@aliceputt3133]

This is wonderful, but the statement that this is the only library of antiquity to be found is inaccurate. There’s the library from Nineveh with it cuneiform clay tablets.

[@maszkalman3676]

Brah clay tablets and papyrus completely different beast alltogether so you are innacurate clay tablets counts as pottery in archeology os even if there are writings on it doesn't count as a book or a scroll ever and you didn't paid attention the "greco roman period" part and the "in place" part either and those clay tablets not found "in place" those were found in (at least) two separate nearby mounds and no record or any evidence to point out that this was thier originla place also the datings of those clay tablets from separate timelines one is 705-681 BCE the other one 668-627 BCE with very small 7 year overlap so those were likely collected and deposited there so originally it was at least from 2 "libraries".

[@skontheroad]

The comments section of stories about subjects that are at a minimum of high school interest should include people who one wouldn't expect to be so childish and rude! 🙄 Or spell so poorly!

[@maszkalman3676]

@@skontheroad So you have no point and start attacking spelling??? Grammar nazis died out with 9 gag mid 2010s

[@skontheroad]

@@maszkalman3676 Put that aside for the moment. I am more concerned that I have ZERO memory of writing it! Completely NO Memory of it! (And there for cannot reply accordingly). Did they take my comments from something else, or on something else, and attached them to this?? VERY Bizarre, don't you agree???

[@thecapone45]

@@maszkalman3676Christ that is one long run on sentence.

[@mudmen3]

I noticed that when they take them in and out of the protective forms they are losing material from the scroll, sometimes a lot of material, at 18:11 you can see one of the protective wrappings with scroll materials stuck to it from when it was wrapped... i know it must be a nightmare trying to handle these pieces of literal carbon, but I think they need to examine their technique and reconsider it

[@fancyfree8228]

It is heartbreaking! They have torn apart many of these over the years, trying to read them.

[@Daefling]

I think the outermost layer has to have been read (analyzed and deciphered) already, since it's right there in the open

[@AliBaba-ke5jn]

This technology is incredible!

[@lindencamelback2305]

Makes you wonder what other applications this same technology could be used on- tools, equipment, weapons, etc.

[@itechnwrite]

With so much ground breaking potential emerging through advancing technologies, it’s an embarrassment that humanity is still so immature and misguided in daily life. How much more could we accomplish if we redirected our mind and efforts toward evolving rather than warring with, hating and attempting to dominate our neighbors?

[@brettmuir5679]

@itechnwrite , one must understand that nearly all of our scientific advances have happened not inspite of war but because of war. It could even be argued that agriculture was developed as a result of war. Rosey lenses and googly-eyed butterfly chasers write songs like "Imagine", (perhaps the most infantile song ever adopted as wisdom in history). Sadly, war drives our human advance. If not for the cold war and the space race we would not have smartphones or the internet. We would all still be using paper maps and reading newspapers to say the least Have a nice day :)

[@janporter4470]

When will we have content available for students of Epicurean philosophy? We have so few Epicurean texts and so many questions.

[@clairerobsin]

...you mean, we may eventually be able to read the rest of Tacitus's work too?

[@lasagnapig630]

hilarious that being “destroyed” by a volcanic eruption is far easier thing for scientists to recover than simply being destroyed via careless handling

[@dunnhaupt]

The scrolls they found in that room are all in Greek. Could there be another room holding the Latin books?

[@Sarafimm2]

Considering there are HUGE sections of both Herculaneum and Pompeii that haven't been dug up/out, I'm quite sure that could eventually happen--and we might have better techniques by then.

[@descendantofgreeksandroman2505]

By considering that the roman emberor philosopher wrote in the simple greek of his era and not in latin I could suppose that more greek books would be emerging. :-) Do not forget romans transferred their capital in a place with more greeks around them. Decades before the old rome fall to barbarians (to barbarians with a roman citizenship! - this is a warning also for today)

[@aliceputt3133]

Perhaps Greek is a more lyrical language than Latin and more useful for philosophical and artistic purposes.

[@judithstrachan9399]

Almost all texts considered important were written in Greek. Latin was more the language of business.

[@federicocarminati]

Roman intellectual were bilingual

[@mellissadalby1402]

Really great video. Very well done.

[@jeromebarry1741]

Realize that if they read and translate all the scrolls, the revealed knowledge will be even more at risk of loss to history as digital storage systems are even more fragile than papyri.

[@keithhoward4069]

but far more easily copied and stored. Once you have the images sorted and made readable you have millions of ways to save them. You could even print out new scrolls if you wish.

[@0ptimal]

This technology is mind-blowing. Crazy what advanced innovation can enable.

[@view1st]

The quality of the art and sculptures at that time are far superior to what came later. I suppose the one hundred years on either side of the Republic and the Empire marked the zenith of ancient Roman art.

[@lisaschuster686]

The volcano cooked the books, lol.

[@epluribusunum1460]

Clever!

[@danielabbey7726]

Underated comment!

[@Svensk7119]

Literally. Literature Literally. I realized that while typing.

[@lisaschuster686]

@@Svensk7119 Don’t you love predictive text? 😊

[@Svensk7119]

@@lisaschuster686 Self-fulfilling prophecy?

[@ellen4956]

9:23 Not all libraries from antiquity have been lost. There have been libraries found on clay tablets in at least two places, and probably more.

[@stuart6478]

Finding more children's stories. What a treat

[@skontheroad]

If you have not watched DOMINA, and you enjoy Ancient Rome, definitely watch it!! Very enjoyable!

[@1tunaep2]

YES, my favorite narrator. I thought she was gone.

[@johng4093]

Maybe we will even find the ancient overdue book notifications. 😂

[@user-ud2ij7ro5c]

Any words about the pigment used. In passing I heard a metallic type was used and it looks to have a blue tint to it. I wonder? Hmm…

[@antonioromano9963]

Extraordinary if they discover Archimedes manuscripts, bingo !!

[@drfred1203]

@Castletown999 I turned on the subtitles and muted the program. No music. No voice. Of course, now I have to watch and read at the same time and I don’t like that very much, but I like it more than the annoying music.

[@christopher9196]

Yeah every once in awhile I do the same. Exercises the brain I guess.

[@gregoryggood]

Perhaps we should safely store valuable information in multiple places including the moon and Mars. That way when our civilization is destroyed someday it will help future civilizations to not have to reinvent many things that took us thousands of years to figure out. This could be like the arctic seed vault but rather information vaults in many remote locations. They would also need to contain ways to translate the information into something that the discoverers in the future could decipher.

[@MaxStArlyn]

9:21 Lost because they have been looted, and taken away, so we don’t get access to them. Knowledge….information, is power. If you are able to learn from the past, and make sure others don’t,…you are at a huge advantage.

[@meemo32086]

Question. The people that are annoyed by the music. There is a simple solution. Turn off the sound and read the close caption. You can pause the screen if you're a slow reader. Hope that helps. I do it often.

[@frankhamilton673]

Well done. I read Gwyneth and Nine years Among the Indians. . Your pictures help a lot.

[@bondniko]

Yet again. Where are the bloody texts if you have made a breakthrough?

[@judithstrachan9399]

According to wiki, they can’t read the ink because it’s carbon based. Got all me ‘opes up….

[@Kenshiroit]

@@judithstrachan9399 Seals research team has solved this in 2019 with some new software

[@leifnordh9109]

They believe There should be a latin library as well at the same location. Any plans for excavations?

[@billshiff2060]

I hope for an unknown work by Archimedes.

[@antonioromano9963]

Precisely

[@gerrybailey447]

That could either sink or swim!

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

A biography of Alexander.

[@danieltaylor4849]

Great documentary. Thank you

[@General1Cal]

So what did the scrolls say

[@PawZPools]

Glad to see someone finally acting upon my idea of using MRI technology to scan these scrolls. I shared the idea in an email with college professors when I first saw a story about these scrolls over 2 decades ago. At that time no mention of using MRI tech to look into the contents of these scrolls was being explored.

[@Cre80s]

Amazing stuff!

[@kornel91]

Incredible. I'm so excited!

[@jaimediego5109]

And you just can't hide it. You're about to lose control and you think you like.

[@kornel91]

@@jaimediego5109 🤣

[@MelissaThompson432]

"Background" music is very disturbing to people with sensory processing issues. I can't understand voices when music is being played. Especially when it's "energetic" music or has emotive "swells and swoops."

[@neonparadise3095]

😂😂😂

[@hopelessnerd6677]

It could be that the sound mixer is completely incompetent, or that it was originally mixed in surround sound, and when it was downmixed, it brought the "music" forward. Either way, it makes the whole thing unwatchable. Just don't need music when somebody is talking!

[@SadHappyOogyBoogy]

Wear a helmet.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@SadHappyOogyBoogy are you imagining that the poster is throwing things at my head?

[@johng4093]

I like it.

[@procouswest20]

the more I'm forced to watch ads the more I hate the products

[@ΧρήστοςΚαψάλης-σ5φ]

Makes you wonder. Is there A third city out there? Maybe multiple villages? Similarly, is there another settlement on Santorini? Does Akrotiri maybe have similar scrolls waiting to be found?

[@rebeccagutierrez1960]

It should be on your bucket list to visit Pompelli in Italy. I was able to go and see for myself days before we had ever heard the word coronavirus.

[@kreiner1]

This is so cool, just think of what will be able to do in 100 years

[@monicam.8006]

I'm praying that the scrolls contain forgotten works of literature like where the real location of Atlantis is or some of the other lost literary works so that we may now recover them.

[@mccallosone4903]

Atlantis wasnt a real place

[@Galatopia]

What is the result?

[@carollollol]

DAMN THAT IS ONE BIG CLIFHANGER AT THE END!!!

[@vvanderer]

Why greek alphabet for roman documents? Were they already ancient, taken from Greece, when Pompeii was immolated?

[@bpier]

The background music is ridiculously distracting!

[@Spartacus2474]

All right: what did they FIND?

[@fordsrestorations970]

Some servers mixing the sound are muted or too loud sometimes as for my server I have perfect sound on the narrator and the music

[@thekeepers15]

How were they in the scanner for a 164 hr's but then at the same time they where only given 3 days to work with the scrolls ?

[@GiseleLeclerc]

so fascinating

[@skontheroad]

This is a great plug for University of Kentucky btw! I would hire someone who graduated from there! Who would hvae thunk! 😅

[@debbralehrman5957]

Amazing 😯👏🏼👏🏼

[@roelofmalan6452]

GREAT topuc, now we can read it. We know the technique - WHAT DOES IT SAY

[@jayizzett]

Where is the footage of the scrolls being found tho.

[@Cre80s]

17:18 Why just 3 days??? What’s the hurry???

[@nerfnerfification]

Another video replete with redundent bulldust - about 3 mins of real content on the scrolls but displaying the technical expertise of a small home appliance. The point of making the sectional 5 micron scans is that you can see 'bumps' on the surface of the papyrus which is the added ink and a compter can add all these together virtually to recreate the form of the letters. Ir is difficult but with AI deep learning asssitance can be done eventually.

[@beesdreams9]

Amen

[@hopelessnerd6677]

75 feet of ash. That was a rough day.

[@TriÂn101]

Wow cộng nghệ thật tuyệt vời ❤

[@tomliii8619]

There are tons of intact historical objects that have never been catalogued in American museums. Thanks to Americans making the "Grand Tour" in the 1890's & pre-WW One era.

[@skinnycartman99]

May I introduce you to British museums as well.

[@hugosophy]

The master sound mix is ALL JACKED UP.

[@pats5375]

Just imagine if there is found to be documents that are instruction manuals revealing how the pyramids were built and what they were built for and could do, if they were actual power generators?

[@mchepen]

''all libraries from antiquity have been lost''. yeah, to fire. they were burnt. conviniently burnt...

[@wkjeeping9053]

Finally more proof civilization is way older then taught.

[@nazlsenay7312]

🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏congratulations for this thought

[@hardyboy1959]

I'm excited!

[@rogersheddy6414]

I could only imagine if one of these turned out to be a letter from the apostle Paul. My thinking though is what if one of these turned out to be a previously unknown letter from Paul? This thought is not so crazy, as scholars have pointed out that the letters that are in the Bible are probably only a small part of what Paul actually did write to different churches at the time. Five hundred books.

[@robertfrankwilliams3056]

How are you progressing in deleting the distracting, unnecessary “MUSIC?” Nobody wants it….:(

[@0ptimal]

Hard to believe that these are the only remaining remnants of old libraries. They should have used granite. Even now.

[@rsc9520]

It's amazing !!!

[@marena3511]

Interesting topic, irritating background “music?” noises from the video. Could not get past two minutes of it. Does nothing to further portray Herculanium or any knowledge or process of discovering such knowledge. So why include irritating repetitive noises in your audio ? HEY KZbin ! PLEASE INCLUDE TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THOSE OF US MORE SENSITIVE TO AUDITORY RUBBISH AFFECTING OUR BRAIN WAVE FREQUENCIES IN DECIDEDLY UNWANTED WAYS !

[@CRD-hi6vk]

Amazing how fragments of the Hebrew Bible was found in Herculaneum.

[@Zeeshan-ep1og]

Sorry had turn off could stand the music

[@brianrutherford2379]

I agree, no music to district your brain.

[@FransBlaas1]

Very well done and hopefully they can read it all.. just sad that hundred years of losses due to unprofessional research can never be brought back..

[@chesterfinecat7588]

Get back to me when you’ve deciphered a scroll. “Cuxus owes two more oxen and a man to drive them. Slay him if he doesn’t pay.”

[@JoeM370]

This content is simply wonderful. I found a book with similar themes that reshaped my outlook. "The Silent Bridge: Echoes of the Unspoken Past" by Emma Wick

[@brocnor]

Please Sir, the dog are my homework. But luckily, (he said, laying a dog turd on the teacher's desk) I have this!

[@detoneVT]

this music video kept getting drowned out by the background documentary.

[@bestof467]

That's a lot of work just to read how the Roman Kamasutra story ended📜

[@FeetMusical]

Marvelous wonders of modern science and data processing. Imagine though that the final result will be uncovering a grocery list for a banquet. Still interesting, still useful, and still worth it. Or they uncover a record of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, nine years prior to Vesuvius cataclysmic explosion.

[@judithstrachan9399]

History as well as philosophy? Why not?

[@topcat32349]

Shall we mention the flat AI delivery?

[@sallybazaz3272]

Update please

[@superfluffyfun]

what do they say is what wud be interesting...

[@randypablo4391]

Hopefully..new testament books are on these charred scrolls

[@lawrencenoctor2703]

You have a serious documentary, the sound track just takes away from it.

[@solinvictus39]

These documentaries would be so much better without the computer-generated narration. Is it really that hard to get a real human narrator???

[@alexsmith9617]

Pretty cool 😎

[@GreenGrow-ck3pg]

I wonder what he would spend on a robbery crew. This is not find so I don't think security is huge. It was his idea first.

[@patrickdurst9623]

buried in 30 min - excavated in 300 years

[@chadrathbone]

Why does a school of dentistry have an X-ray machine like that?

[@fancyfree8228]

Some of them were thought to be charcoal and burned as such when they were first discovered 😢

[@rioborzeli147]

Tech today can help to using tech to unravel and tell the Grus at time story , Rey interested

[@rwarren58]

He just put his DNA all over the scroll. Now we can’t advanced AI and touch DNA to reconstruct the scroller. We’re already reading millinea old scrolls. We can do more!

[@scottowens1535]

Rarely can we get a vision of the grandure of our past. Tut, the wreck of the unimaginable??extraordinary???you know the sun God worshiper one. What specticals we've made. What wisdom would the library of Alexandra hold? It's funny knowone seems to even speculate what the Vatican holds. Bet it's good!

[@alexbooyse9053]

Nice video. Shame about the background music! But why do that? I don’t need someone else’s emotions to replace my own.

[@Brian0wns]

They are going to all be ancient Roman memes. Esne Iratus Frater?

[@chetcarman3530]

To paraphrase from your own narrative: When dealing with something as important, ancient and valuable as this, WHAT'S A FEW MORE MONTHS WAITING TO GET THE RESULTS?! Why not wait a little while for the completion and THEN do this doc ($$) so you can share some of the actual findings?? 😢😢😢

[@marcusmossuto]

The lost Latin Etruscan dictionary……….or other lost works of the ancient world.

[@RCSVirginia]

@marcusmossuto I was thinking that, too: The Lost Latin/Etruscan Dictionary, Emperor Claudius' History of Rome, any of the original source materials on Alexander the Great and so on.