Herculaneum Scrolls: Unraveling History | Breakthrough 

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.

Music is annoying and makes the narrator hard to understand

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Oh I love that!!

​@@Svensk7119 The Vatican library also.

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.

​@@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

@@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.

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@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 :)

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".

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!

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

@@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???

@@maszkalman3676Christ that is one long run on sentence.

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

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

Clever!

Underated comment!

Literally. Literature Literally. I realized that while typing.

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

@@lisaschuster686 Self-fulfilling prophecy?

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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

Roman intellectual were bilingual

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

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Precisely

That could either sink or swim!

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

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

Atlantis wasnt a real place

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

Amen

Good point...annoying as f...

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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!

Wear a helmet.

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

I like it.

History as well as philosophy? Why not?