Scientists Reveal Ancient Social Networks Using AI—and X-Rays
Scientists Reveal Ancient Social Networks Using AI—and X-Rays
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 22, 20198m 28s
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Show Notes
Folded and sealed with a dollop of red wax, the will of Catharuçia Savonario Rivoalti lay in Venice’s State Archives, unread, for more than six and a half centuries. Scholars don’t know why the document, written in 1351, was never opened. But to physicist Fauzia Albertin, the three-page document—six pages, folded—was the perfect thickness for an experiment.
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