manuscripts

11 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 4 claims, 2 entitys, 1 question, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

we never unrolled it

essay draft 2026-07-13 · herculaneum, vesuvius-challenge, virtual-unwrapping, manuscripts, ai-ml

Everything else

Verify the Sinai Palimpsests Project figures (74 palimpsests / 6,800 pages / 305 erased texts, 2011–2016) against a second or primary source

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · sinai, palimpsest, multispectral-imaging, verification, manuscripts
The Sinai Palimpsests Project's own venues disagree on the erased-text language count — 11 (Phelps 2023) vs. 10 (UCLA Newsroom and the project website), the gap being Coptic

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities, quantitative-correction
St. Catherine's Monastery's total known palimpsests figure is unsettled across the Sinai Palimpsests Project's own sources — 172 (Phelps 2023) vs. 160 (project website)

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities, quantitative-correction
Recovering text that cannot be read — the object survives, the reading is what's lost, and one move recovers it across scroll, palimpsest, and dead shorthand

topic map 2026-08-11 · virtual-unwrapping, digital-humanities, manuscripts, en-gedi, herculaneum
In June 2026, PHerc. 1667 became the first carbonized Herculaneum scroll read end-to-end without being physically unrolled

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · herculaneum, vesuvius-challenge, virtual-unwrapping, ai-ml, archaeology
The Sinai Palimpsests Project (2011–2016) used multispectral imaging to recover 307 erased texts from scraped-and-reused parchment at St. Catherine's Monastery

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · palimpsest, multispectral-imaging, sinai, manuscripts, digital-humanities
Verify the Sinai Palimpsests Project figures (74 palimpsests / 6,800 pages / 305 erased texts, 2011–2016) against a second or primary source

question open 2026-07-11 · sinai, palimpsest, multispectral-imaging, verification, manuscripts
Machine learning finished reading a Herculaneum scroll in June 2026 — the same recovery logic that already reads erased Sinai palimpsests

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, manuscripts, ai-ml, archaeology, digital-humanities
Michael B. Phelps

entity hub · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities, multispectral-imaging
Nikolas Zarkantzas

entity hub · sinai, palimpsest, manuscripts, digital-humanities