Some recent discoveries

A personal blog post covering four unrelated recent discoveries: the Vesuvius Challenge team's successful imaging and partial transcription of Herculaneum scroll PHerc. 1667 (a philosophical treatise, ~300-400 words recovered); the rediscovery of three lost songs from Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe found in a British Library manuscript; a proposed (skeptically received) decipherment of the Minoan Linear A script as Semitic; and a real-world art installation featuring the 'hat' aperiodic monotile discovered in 2022.

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