Just waiting for some tech bros to add ai and re-invent the bucket hat with a new private equity funded company.
“Designed by AI”
A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt
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#12I wonder how authentic the hat must be after restoration? And how exactly restoration is done ? It seems restoration had to be funded so must be some elaborate process.
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#13It looks like a bucket hat.
There’s a joke about Oasis in there somewhere.
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#14It looks like a bucket hat.
Bucket hats are pretty useful as far as hats go. Glad to see they have a long standing heritage!
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#15> As it turns out, even the Romans understood the power of a good hat.
The author thinks Roman had low intellect or something?
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#16So it lasted about 2k years where it was, then was removed, put in storage and damaged by moths in the museum?
> Roman Egypt preserves a much larger slice of our evidence than any other place in the ancient world. This comes down to climate (as do most things); Egypt is a climatically extreme place. On the one hand, most of the country is desert and here I mean hard desert, with absolutely minuscule amounts of precipitation. On the other hand, the Nile River creates a fertile, at points almost lush, band cutting through the country running to the coast. The change between these two environments is extremely stark [...]
> That in turn matters because while Egypt was hardly the only arid region Rome controlled, it was the only place you were likely to find very many large settlements and lots of people living in such close proximity to such extremely arid environments (other large North African settlements tend to be coastal). And that in turn matters for preservation.
https://acoup.blog/2022/12/02/collections-why-roman-egypt-wa...
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#17I wonder how authentic the hat must be after restoration? And how exactly restoration is done ? It seems restoration had to be funded so must be some elaborate process.
The hat of Theseus
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#19Just waiting for some tech bros to add ai and re-invent the bucket hat with a new private equity funded company.
Google Hat, the coming successor to Google Glass.
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#20> As it turns out, even the Romans understood the power of a good hat. The author thinks Roman had low intellect or something?
Most people think ancient people were idiots. Romans could have invented steam engines if they wanted to.