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Toto · 05-19-2009, 09:33 AM

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/05/18/4185721.htm

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Brent Seales, the Gill professor of engineering in UK's computer science department of, will use an X-Ray CT scanning system to collect interior images of the scrolls' rolled-up pages. Then, he and his colleagues hope to digitally "unroll" the scrolls on a computer screen so scholars can read them.

. . .

If it works, what will they find? The best guess is that the scrolls contain writings by Philodemus, a Roman writer and Epicurean philosopher born about 110 B.C. Philodemus is not considered a classical thinker of the first rank, but he was a contemporary of Cicero. He taught Virgil and is thought to have influenced the Roman poet Horace.

Philodemus also was a friend of Lucius Calpurnius Piso -- the father-in-law of Julius Caesar -- who at one time owned that luxurious villa at Herculaneum.

If the process works, it may be applied to some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

bacht · 05-19-2009, 02:15 PM

Are there still some DSS that haven't been opened?

Toto · 05-19-2009, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bacht

Are there still some DSS that haven't been opened?

That is the claim in the article.

Roger Pearse · 05-19-2009, 11:31 PM

Thanks Toto for this one. The story is also here; the first link puts up unbelievable amounts of rubbish onscreen to stop you reading the story.

avi · 05-20-2009, 02:59 PM

Here's another link to an earlier study, same topic, similar conclusions

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avi Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Location: eastern North America Posts: 1,468	Here's another link to an earlier study, same topic, similar conclusions

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