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Computer Reveals Stone Tablet "Handwriting"
ewenc writes "A computer technique can tell the difference between ancient Greek inscriptions created by different artisans, a feat that ordinarily consumes years of human scholarship, reports New Scientist. A team of Greek computer scientists created the program after a scholar challenged them to attribute 24 inscriptions to their rightful cutter. The researchers scanned the tablets and constructed an average shape for several Greek letters in every tablet. After comparing the average letters between different tablets, they correctly attributed the inscriptions to six stone-cutters."
Back then, they hadn't yet discovered that you could chisel a notch on the edge of the tablet and then use the other side.
Q: Why does it take years for people to decode those scripts?
A: Because it is all greek to us.
Thank you, thank you. No autographs please.
They have identified their first inscription....
ALL YOUR VASE ARE BELONG TO US
Upon Decoding the Tablets they found out one of the tablets said "The Game".
the drive? cheap
the tablets = very pricy
they always get you with the media
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'