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🗓️ 15 November 2024
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0:00.0 | So when Vesuvius erupted, it buried Pompeii famously under about 20 feet of volcanic ash, |
0:06.0 | and buried the neighboring city of Herculaneum beneath a pyroclastic flow. |
0:09.0 | This white-hot cloud of various gases, suspended sediment, everything else, over a mud flow. |
0:15.0 | And this encased Herculum in about 50 or 60 feet of rock-hard sediment. |
0:20.0 | And it flash burned and preserved organic material. |
0:23.6 | So we have doors, we have shingles, we have all kinds of things that have survived |
0:26.6 | nowhere else outside Egypt. |
0:27.6 | And we have an entire library that was preserved in this villa outside the town. |
0:31.6 | And there are hundreds of scrolls that were discovered, some of them partially unwrapped, |
0:35.6 | kind of inexpertly, over the past couple hundred years. There's now an initiative underway, the Vesuvius challenge, to use high-resolution |
0:42.0 | scans of these scrolls and AIs that can read the different resonances, the different signatures |
0:47.9 | inside these scrolls, to determine where there's ink, like the slight thicknesses in the papyrus itself, |
0:55.0 | and virtually unwrap and read them without having to actually, you know, hack away at the charcoal that is the scroll itself. |
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1:15.0 | Thank you. |
1:17.0 | Garrett, Sir Todenstone, as I should say, thank you so much for coming in from Chicago, brother. |
1:21.8 | I'm really, really excited to talk with you today. |
1:24.2 | Julian, thanks so much for inviting me. I'm thrilled to be here. Yeah, I don't know how you haven't been on a lot of podcasts. |
1:29.3 | Let's see if we can change that after today, and I'm sure we're going to have a lot of podcasts |
1:33.3 | in the future because your scope of expertise across ancient Rome and ancient Greece, there's |
1:39.3 | unlimited topics there. |
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