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by canada_dry 9 days ago
Asked gpt to see if it could discern Egyptian hieroglyphs from the image of the tomb wall...

https://i.postimg.cc/Pdw7sw-0W/image.png

The "possible standing figure" on the right seems plausible. Be interested in seeing what the actual painstaking restoration eventually reveals.

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It's easier to just use your eyes, isn't it? The photo in the article is here: https://cdn.labrujulaverde.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/07...

There are two standing figures to the right (correctly identified by ChatGPT), and at least two kneeling figures with upraised arms stacked toward the left (ChatGPT puts the bottom figure's arms inside the "legs" of its bunny-shaped green circle).

Scroll down in the article to see a close-up on the kneeling figures.

There is no text visible in the photos from the article, although if you go on to read the text of the article you learn that text was found elsewhere in the tomb, such that we can confidently identify the owner's name (among other things).

Mine was simply an exercise to see what gpt's vision would come up with vs. the expert analysis.