Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius
Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're reading it.
AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius
An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.
Inside Ancient Herculaneum Scroll Seen For First Time Since Vesuvius Erupted 2,000 Years Ago
Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in almost 2,000 years. The announcement was made by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford,
AI Peers Inside Burned 2,000-Year-Old Vesuvius Scroll, Finds ‘Disgust’
A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents carbonized into hardened lumps by the volcanic blast.
Researchers Get a Peek Inside Another Herculaneum Scroll That Survived Vesuvius’s Eruption
Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of Herculaneum.
Using A.I., Researchers Peer Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the Herculaneum scrolls
AI helps researchers read ancient scrolls burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption
Researchers have taken one step closer to understanding the past after they managed to use artificial intelligence to read one of the hundreds of scrolls that were discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii.
Scientists Digitally Unroll Ancient Script Burned by Vesuvius
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a library of papyrus scrolls was incinerated in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, for the first time, researchers have unfurled the carbonized remains of one such scroll—not physically,
A 'Historic Breakthrough' With Charred Vesuvius Scrolls
After two students correctly identified the ancient Greek word for "purple" in a papyrus scroll charred by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, they teamed up with a third student to identify about 5% of the philosophical text,
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