#the ancient scrolls……

[flokali]

Boothill and a corrupt USB with a “love virus”… and you’re the poor, unfortunate engineer forced to deal with him in this state, except his little metal heart has gotten too attached to you and the feeling of overbearing longing that you make him feel… on the bright side, your wanted posters look lovely together ♥︎

#yandere honkai #yandere honkai star rail #yandere hsr #yandere boothill #boothill #yandere male #yandere concept #yandere x reader #yandere male x reader #boothill x reader #honkai star rail x reader #star rail x reader #i’ll elaborate on this i promise #my hsr brainrot is too strong rn - and sunday… sunday i have plans for you my boy #send star rail requests - i have a sparkle one that’s eating my brain but i can handle more please please please #๋࣭. ancient scrolls

[theribbajack]

"Both of you, faithless fools who would dare to take up arms against the king of earth and sky!"

The words "Zonai Ganondorf" entered my head and I haven't been sane since. Perhaps in the Zonai version of the legend, the warlord "Gannon" sought after the secret stones, and the incarnation of Hylia draconified herself to stop him alongside the Ancient Hero.

#my art #totk #ganondorf #ganon #zonai #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom #demon king ganondorf #calamity ganon #botw #breath of the wild #tloz #legend of zelda #at this point zelda lore is like elder scrolls lore #ten contradictory versions of a myth and they're all true at the same time #i want to draw the ancient hero but actually zonai instead of a catboy or whatever that was we got #i really wanted to give him the boar snout here since the demon dragon has it #but it just didn't work and always looked silly #his neck pendant did not intentionally look like a bokoblin but it totally does whoops

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Back on my high effort joke bullshit

#bedrock’s #ultrakill #sisyphus prime #minos prime #psych there’s some deeper meaning re: ancient greek male nudity + trans minos #maybe one day I’ll do a proper dive #also fun fact the pattern on his himation is a version of the cretan stitch! #which is a little dubious because (as far as I know) it came from minoan embroidery #which is distinct from ancient greek? #and minos was the king of crete in GREEK MYTHOLOGY #which is. younger than minoan civilization. #he’s possibly younger than the ancient civilization that was named after him (fun!) #anyways I’ll let you get back to your scrolling that has been Walker’s Wiki-Walking Hour #nvm I misremembered the cretan stitch was not from the minoan #still! the intersection of history and myth is just. augh #funfl fact did u know the archeologist who discovered the Palace of Minos was also named Minos

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Ancient nords levitating rocks - it appears they may be preparing it for transportation to construct their temples.

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Adam Adamowicz

#adam adamowicz #art #the elder scrolls #concept art #tes #skyrim #nord #nordic ruin #nord ruin #levitation #ancient ruins #ancient #fantasy #magicka

[hircinesanters]

Listening to Skyrim OST in game: ugh whatever I’ve heard this a bajillion times😒😒

Listening to Skyrim OST outside of the game:

#a reel of someone playing Ancient Stomes on a dulcimer came up in my feed and I straight up almost started weeping #skyrim #tesblr #the elder scrolls #tes v #game ost #I think maybe it’s much more emotional for me bc I’ve moved and that game just reminds me of playing it at home or smth idk #moving houses is weird

[the-sunlit-earth]

#you see when a 4000 year old devil god loves an ancient dead warlord very much.. #he will wait an eternity for said warlord to be reborn. and then send them Wedding Dreams :) #Dagoth Ur to his Sleepers: 'You guys don't think I'm coming on too strong do you?' #elder scrolls #tes #skyrim #morrowind #dunmer #Neloth #Talvas Fathryon #Tel Mithryn crew #Nerevoryn #apologies to those whose Nerevarines would never dream of smooching Lord Dagoth XD #or wearing Indoril armor to the fight #tesblr #my art #my posts

[randomrottmntscreenshots]

I come back

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #splinter #raph #the ancient art of ninja hide and seek #cray-cray-anime #submitter tags: #I'd say like #70% of my screenshots at least are sillies #i scroll far and wide #to not see these up yet #so come here to give em to ya #look at him #silly stressed dad #(also for quality idk bro i just screenshot while i watch a video/episode) #also keep thinking of jacko lantern for that 2nd screenshot lol #and raph makes an appearance too! #silly lil leaf boi #rottmnt raph #cray-cray-anime post #submission

[the-puffinry]

#tagamemnon #bit ill so lazily scrolling thru twt pt 2 #ancient greece #ancient rome #late bronze age #early iron age #resources

[adhdchilles]

people keep coming back to this post and it got me thinking

#robb draws on ancient prophetic scrolls #achilles #the song of achilles #the iliad #tsoa #song of achilles #tsoa achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #greek mythology

[aldruiel-scribbles]

No one talks about how atmorans brought the Dragon Cult when they came to Skyrim, and maybe the snow elves didn't want a dragon or dragon priest to have the Eye of Magnus and that's why they also attacked (I know there're more reasons to it).

It is said that initially Snow Elves welcomed them, and even traded with Atmorans. Until relationships got really tense, culminating with the Night of Tears. Perhaps tensions were high because dragons were expanding their territory and demanding that everyone worshipped them.

We know Atmorans were having a civil war back in their homeland. A religious civil war. Yes, again. Precisely because of dragons. People were tired of been forced into servitud, and wanted to keep worshipping their other gods in peace (Moth, fox, hawk, whale, dragon etc. Latter in time they molded the gods with their animals representation), instead of just dragons. Like a prelude to the dragon wars. But somehow these cultists won and Atmora froze (not just cold, but it is said that also frozen in time).

In my opinion Snow Elves, did not want any of that Dragon Cult bullshit and fought against it. Yet with dragons and the Thu'um on the atmoran side, their magic wasn't enough to defeat them.

We know so little, and it's the rhetoric of the winners. After all the only information we have of that conflict is of Nordic sources.

#skyrim #skyrim dovahkiin #the elder scrolls #skyrim dragonborn #dragonborn #dovahkiin #miraak #the last dragonborn #snow elves #snow elf #falmer #ancient falmer #atmorans #nords

[flokali]

Argenti who believes you (player) are Idrila… the being who’d saved him countless of times, the one who protects him in times of peril. The reason he only meets you in near death situation is due to how the universe works, determined to only let you meet those who adore you once they’re at their weakest and need your help to return to their true form. Every time a new soul comes to you, arriving at the Express’ doors, you welcome them and work tirelessly to give them strength unattainable through other means.

Albeit not knowing how you truly look like, he can see your silhouette in his mind’s eye. He knows the broad brush strokes that compose your face, even your eye color and hair texture immortalized in his memory. He knows deep down that there will never be any being that can rival the beauty of his Lord.

Argenti, who once finally home with you, can finally rest easy knowing that you are with him – watching over him and giving him strength in your own way. However, he still cannot touch you, he hasn’t been able to clearly see your face yet. His journey isn’t done, now he must find a way to bring you to him so he can spread the word of your arrival and power while adoring you in his arms.

#yandere honkai star rail #yandere hsr #hsrsau #honkai star rail x reader #agrenti #self aware honkai star rail #self aware au #yandere argenti #argenti x reader #male yandere #yandere x reader #yandere honkai #yandere star rail #๋࣭. ancient scrolls #many thots #ohemgee!! i forgot to tell you i actually managed to get him #idk how but he came >< hehhe #i also got navia and diluc !!! my luck has been p good w/ hoyo games #but… not so much in other games (whb cough cough)

[elderscrollsconfessions]

Confession: I was like 8 when I first tried to play Skyrim. When I was on my way to Riverwood, I got so scared of the wolves that I quit the game and didn't try again until I was 10. I was fine with the dragon and the soldiers, but not wolves apparently.

#you're valid for feeling spooked but you're making me feel ancient #Skyrim #Riverwood #The Elder Scrolls #TES #ESC

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Word Wall

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Adam Adamowicz

#adam adamowicz #art #the elder scrolls #concept art #tes #skyrim #nord #nord ruin #word wall #dovahzul #dragon runes #dragon language #dragon tongue #thuum #ancient ruins

[o-vera-nalyzing]

i want what figayda has

#that’s a lie i wouldn’t want to be separated from my partner for an entire school year only able to communicate through ancient scrolls #it is romantic though u gotta give it to them #top tier yearning material but unfortunately it’s junior year #junior year is not a time for yearning #anyways i still want what they have just minus the spontaneous prehistoric trip #figayda #ayda aguefort #fig faeth #fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #dimension 20 #original overanalyzing

[blueiskewl]

Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius’ Eruption

A Roman scroll, partially preserved when it was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, has been virtually unwrapped and decoded using artificial intelligence.

The feat was achieved by three contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition launched in March 2023 in which people around the world raced to read the ancient Herculaneum papyri.

Papyrologists working with the Vesuvius Challenge believe the scroll contains “never-before-seen text from antiquity,” and the text in question is a piece of Epicurean philosophy on the subject of pleasure. The winning submission shows ancient Greek letters on a large patch of scroll, and the author seems to be discussing the question: are things that are scarce more pleasurable as a result?

The author, whose identity is unconfirmed, doesn’t think so: “As too in the case of food, we do not right away believe things that are scarce to be absolutely more pleasant than those which are abundant,” one passage from the scroll reads.

The three members of the winning team had previously individually made significant contributions to the competition. Luke Farritor, a computer science student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Youssef Nader, a machine learning Ph.D. student at Freie University in Berlin, had been two of the first contestants to detect a smaller number of letters, winning $40,000 and $10,000 respectively. Julian Schilliger, a robotics student at ETH Zürich, developed a tool that began to automatically segment the scrolls. They will share the $700,000 grand prize.

Nat Friedman, a tech investor and executive, and one of the challenge’s organizers, recently printed out the winning submission. “All this has been in this dreamlike digital world in my imagination before," Friedman says. "Seeing it on paper, rolling it up, it just made it so tangible.”

There’s a lot more to discover. The scroll partially decoded by the winning submission was one of 800 discovered in a southern Italian villa that was first uncovered in 1750. The combined efforts of the competitors and organizers so far have resulted in around 5% of one scroll being read.

The final scramble to read the scrolls

Since the Vesuvius Challenge launched nearly a year ago, participants had both cooperated and competed, sharing their latest techniques with each other and posting pictures of their progress. But as the race for the grand prize intensified, the Discord, a social media platform where the participants shared information, went dark, says Friedman.

Of the eighteen submissions for the grand prize, most of them were received on the last day of the contest, Dec. 31, and three were sent in the final ten minutes, according to Friedman. Friedman recalls he was at home with his family around Christmas, decorating for the holiday while compulsively refreshing his phone, when the winning submission came in. “I ran into my little office at home and popped it open,” he says. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is really magnificent.’”

In accordance with the criteria set in March 2023, the winning submission contains four passages of 140 characters each, with at least 85% of the characters in each of those passages recoverable by professional papyrologists. It also contains a further 11 columns of text.

It isn’t known who authored the ancient scroll, but experts have developed theories. “Is the author Epicurus' follower, the philosopher and poet Philodemus, the teacher of Vergil? It seems very likely,” writes Richard Janko, professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. “Is he writing about the effect of music on the hearer, and comparing it to other pleasures like those of food and drink? Quite probably.” Robert Fowler, a professor of Greek at the University of Bristol, also believes the author to be Philodemus. “Like other Epicureans, he valued pleasure above all - but pleasure rightly understood, not mere indulgence,” Fowler writes of the philosopher.

In the final section of the scroll, the author appears to criticize his intellectual adversaries, who “have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular, when it is a question of definition.”

“I can't help but read it as a 2000 year old blog post, arguing with another poster,” says Friedman. “It's ancient Substack, and people are beefing with each other, and I think that's just amazing.”

What comes next

The Vesuvius Challenge has issued a new grand prize for 2024 that will allow the AI-enhanced decoding to move at a faster pace.

The competitors largely have been developing algorithms for automatic letter detection—using AI to see traces of ink on segments of virtually unrolled scrolls. Aside from letter detection, the other main challenge associated with reading the scrolls is segmentation—separating the layers and virtually unrolling the scrolls. So far, this process has been highly manual; the Vesuvius Challenge employed three full-time segmenters. In order to ensure that they’d have segmented enough of the scroll for someone to win the grand prize, Friedman bought the team new monitors and computers to boost their productivity. The challenge for 2024 is to automate the segmentation process.

Friedman admits that he has had other tempting offers of new quests to pursue. Over the last year, he says his inbox has been filled with Robinson Crusoe-esque proposals, from people alerting him to lost shipwrecks and ancient cities, undecoded languages, and strange glyphs on the sides of mountains.

But he can’t walk away. He wants to help read all of the 800 scrolls already discovered in the villa. And some archeologists believe there is a main library containing tens of thousands of scrolls, still waiting to be excavated.

To expedite the excavation, Friedman has obtained the mobile number of the Italian civil servant responsible for the villa, whom he has texted, twice. “My hope is that I won't have to go and dig it out myself,” says Friedman. “But if that's what it comes to, I will.”

By WILL HENSHALL.

#AI reads ancient scroll buried by Vesuvius eruption #Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius’ Eruption #Herculaneum #Herculaneum papyri #Villa of the Papyri #Mount Vesuvius #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #roman history #roman empire #long post #long reads

[quadrantadvisor]

Normally I'm more into human -> mutant rat Splinter than rat -> mutant rat Splinter, because it makes more sense to me for this stoic Ninja master to have been human around some point than some rat who knew ninjitsu. The direction Mutant Mayhem took with him was so good, though. Like, he actually felt like a rat who became a single father. Them taking up martial arts to protect themselves (from training videos) works PERFECTLY in the cartoon logic of the world. Nothing takes itself too seriously but nothing is so weird as to break immersion. Wow this movie is good.

#yes i am looking at you bayverse #like if im remembering right their rat dad was inexplicably japanese and taught them ninjitsu from an ancient scroll #cant remember if he was ever owned by a ninja master like in the original lore but still #it takes itself so seriously and its explanations are silly as shit #mutant mayhem is tonally perfect #tmnt #mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem spoilers #should mention here that I also enjoy the bayverse movies im just making a comparison