Roman Audio Recordings

[frrrrrunkis]

Belgian scum...grrrrrrrrrr

[melners]

This is a joke, right?

[Fapsamup]

Those aren't French people, those are Belgians!

[IstvanN1961]

Julius Caesar’s greatest hits….

[Raiden738]

oh....poisson d'avril

[Raiden738]

HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT­TTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[Raiden738]

fuckin recordings...how do thay work?

[williestratton]

wow! it's like an edison cylinder, sick!

[Houshalter]

Why is the title in English and the video in French? The least you could do would be to translate it!

[williestratton]

@Houshalter suck it up, some people actually speak french, go figure!

[Houshalter]

@williestratton, I know, right! All I meant is that why post a video in some language and then give it an English title and tags. Googles new auto-translate thing doesn't do this video so its kind of pointless to watch unless you know french. Not that it matters, I thought this whole roman voices thing was proved a hoax, but still.

[williestratton]

@Houshalter was it really!! that's disappointing... : (

[Houshalter]

@williestratton, I mean, think about it reasonablly for a minute. How would is survive the glazing, kiln, painting, then being buried in dirt, then recovered, and still have viable sound on it? That is implying its possible for a potters wheel to be sensitive enough to record sound, which they are not.

[williestratton]

@Houshalter Well the pot hasn't been glazed, and a kiln wont ruin the relatively large grooves on the surface. Also, I've got plenty of extremely old gramopohone records from the early 20th century that are made of a ceramic. But alas, you're right-this is most likely a hoax because there's little else on the internet about it, and for something this ground breaking it'd probably receive a bit more attention.

[cydwatts]

This is credible but for one fact; that vase is NOT Roman. In the video, they say the vase was from Pompei, which makes it Greek. While it's probably in Peloponnesian, they should translate it.

[cydwatts]

This is credible but for one fact; that vase is NOT Roman. In the video, they say the vase was from Pompei, which makes it Greek.

[luglochta]

@cydwatts its not credible, there is no evidence at all in favour of the idea, and the process has been soundly disproven. Sadly.

[Liolar43]

Unfortunately, I found a source which states that this was actually an April Fool's joke, as disappointing as it may sound. Interesting concept, though.

[Sivos909]

Is there any posts somewhere that says what they believe what the person is saying in the recording? I would like to know what they are saying.

[ktm066]

thats is albanian

[coreolis7]

It seems implausible but a spinning wax cylinder with a sharp needle was used by Edison to make the first sound recordings, so it is kind of the same principle to have a sharp stick incise a spinning clay cylinder. If true, the technique should be repeatable. Easy to demonstrate.

[nobusio]

credo quia absurdum .

It means this is Bullshit

[beee245]

@nobusio, bullshit or not, HOW COOL would that be?

[thxoneonethreeeight]

this is so fascinating to me ive been interestid in this stuff for almost 20 years now. i wish there was more on this subject on you tube, i remember a radio show in the early 90's coast to coast am with art bell was talking about the possibility of getting sound out of glass. i think if that was possible then we might be able to get sound out of grannit christals and then we could hear potentially very ancient stuff. i think the rocks will cry out someday.

[anabaptistSue]

A place in the Bible says the rocks would cry out if people didn't praise God at a certain time. Maybe this has something to do with the rocks crying out?

[riccardobruero]

About ten years ago, there was already a tv program on this subject. Can't find the name of the program though, but I think it was on German television...

[FUNCLEJ0E]

If it is a recording, it was not done by a potters hand, it would have been imbedded with a device, and there would be a playback device, though it would probably be made of woods, it would reason there would be a dipiction of such a playback device, which may have not been understood as such. It would not suprize me that such technology has been around, but still a remarkable discovery, which should be investigated.

[crazyedy29]

just because u hav a pipe and speak french dosnt make u smart

[Kenzofeis]

Ah, au contraire monsieur! Especially if you have a noblewood bookshelf behind you :)

[DiegusMaximus]

its exactly like the phonograph. the pot is rotating as its being made and the grooves made by the potters hand trap sounds. it can then be played back by a needle in the grooves

[donfuscht]

strange, it wasnt never shown on TV... u know what i'm sayin'?

[Cosmoline]

Meh. I don't buy it.

[johannine]

What is the name of this reporter? What news station or agency does it come from?

D'ou vient ce reportage? Quelle companie de nouvelles a cree ce video?

[onyxanya]

Wow! thats really fascinating.