SIMON: What the students had uncovered was the Liber - pat, pata - I can't pronounce it. SIMON: Excited students brought their find to their team leader, the archaeologist Melissa Blue of Chattahoochee State, to examine the scroll closely.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #3: (As Melissa Blue) It said compendium jocus at the top, almost like the title carved on the front of a temple.

Roman joke.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #2: (As Alamanda O'Brien) A true inflection point for civilization. We saw we could make out a phrase.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1: (As Arnold Collier) This phrase posed a question - did you hear the rumor about butter?ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #2: (As Alamanda O'Brien) Butter?ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1: (As Arnold Collier) Well, I'm not going to spread it.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1 AND COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #2: (As Arnold Collier and Alamanda O'Brien) I'm not going to spread it.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1: (As Arnold Collier) It was a jocus, a joke, a 44 B.C.

SIMON: Grad students Alamanda O'Brien and Arnold Collier of Kaskaskia State University were on a dig on the site of the Roman Ridiculum Amphitheater last year when their small shovel struck an ancient papyrus scroll.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1: (As Arnold Collier) So we flicked off the dirt carefully.ĬOMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #2: (As Alamanda O'Brien) And began to unroll the scroll. AI technology and archaeology have recently combined to create something remarkable.

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