History
It's a Scroll World After All, Part 2: The Readers Before Us
What I learned from the people who tried to read the Herculaneum scrolls before us Buried Herculaneum by Ethel Ross Barker, 1908. I read it on…
History
History
It's a Scroll World After All
Building a DIY scanner to read 2,000-year-old scrolls that can't be unrolled My fake Herculaneum scroll, spinning on a levitating planter. More on…
AI
Rosetta Stone: Architecture as Language
While working on the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum scrolls, I kept encountering early writing systems—not just as symbols, but as…
Writing
The Anomaly in December
We tend to model the solar system as finished clockwork—a static, predictable machine where the major events happened billions of years ago. Every…
Writing
The Geminids: A yearly delivery of non-Earth material we barely instrument
I’ve been thinking about a simple question: What is our most regular, physically measurable contact with extraterrestrial material? Most people would…
History
Ancient Scrolls
From october 2023 to december 31, I was spending almost all of my time working on this scroll challenge. Gallery (3-col): -…