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The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be ...
For over two millennia, scrolls from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum eluded analysis. Left buried under the ashes when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the scrolls were preserved – but in ...
This Ancient Roman Scroll Was Burned to A Crisp 2,000 Years Ago. Now, Researchers Are Reading What’s Inside With AI. Story by Tibi Puiu • 3w.
X-ray scans and AI have meant the inside of ancient scroll can be revealed A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside ...
Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek, was ...
An Ancient Roman Scroll on Pleasure Was Just Decoded Using AI. 5 minute read. The scroll that competitors in the Vesuvius Challenge partially decoded: P.Herc.Paris Courtesy of the Vesuvius Challenge.
When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue's Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ...
Ancient scroll charred by volcanic eruption reveals what Plato did in his final hours. Brendan Rascius. Wed, May 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM UTC. 2 min read.
In the previous few months, Luke Farritor had joined a worldwide competition to translate ancient Roman scrolls that were damaged by a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.
The contents of an ancient burned Hebrew scroll have been deciphered for the first time thanks to state-of-the-art 3D scanning and digital imaging software.
The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...