A 400-year-old shipwreck padlock has finally been opened by code

Researchers say they've cracked the combination of a padlock recovered from a 17th-century wreck, which apparently used a letter-combination mechanism. It's a neat reminder that 'combination lock' is way older than most people assume. Stories like this, along with the Herculaneum scroll news, make me think archaeology is getting a quiet tech renaissance. What other old puzzles do you think modern tools will solve in the next decade?