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Published · transcript-backedShadi Bartsch: prediction
21 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China
“Yes, I think we will because not only are we continuing to dig and to explore in many places where we know that manuscripts continued to exist but have not been found, but also the technologies for reading these papyri has gotten so amazing.”
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- Shadi Bartsch
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- prediction
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- 21 Apr 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think we will still discover significant new manuscripts from the ancient world? Yes, I think we will because not only are we continuing to dig and to explore in many places where we know that manuscripts continued to exist but have not been found, but also the technologies for reading these papyri has gotten so amazing. Now, you can take a burnt, rolled-up papyrus that you cannot unroll without it just breaking — even though it’s pitch black and fragile, you can actually read it layer by layer, which is amazing. I’m very excited. I know you’re going to ask me next, what texts do I hope we will recover? Of course, which is the one? Caesar’s autobiography? Lost volumes from Livy or Tacitus?…
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