Solving Archaeological Puzzles — mentioned by ludwigschubert

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 21:53:36 GMT

Ah, I think I may see the missed connection! It's like a jigsaw puzzle because archaeologists really do assemble fragments of old scripts. Sometimes the translation efforts can only give you probabilistic answers that in turn influence where you're likely to place a fragment. A family member of mine works in the space academically, and they really have giant catalogues with pictures of fragments, and they experiment with different arrangements and what they would mean to their translation efforts. Unfortunately I don't have a link. :/ EDIT: a random CS paper that talks about automated…

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Solving Archaeological Puzzles — mentioned by ludwigschubert