Ancient scrolls are being 'read' by machine learning--with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them

[Easterncedar]

1. Very hopeful

The possibility of recovering lost knowledge is thrilling. Thanks.

I remember my Classics professor, a lovely, shy, bookish, enthusiastic Englishman, saying 46 years ago that every classicist held a hope for a discovery of a trove of scrolls preserved in the desert. He would have been happy about this.