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 ...
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New Herculaneum Scroll Unwrapped, Revealing Ancient Greek Philosophy
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...
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Greek Letters Reappear After 2,000 Years in Burned Herculaneum Scroll
Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...
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AI Is Deciphering The Writing Inside This 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Scorched By Vesuvius
During Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.
‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
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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 ...
The secrets of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll
A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", allowing researchers to peer inside the ...
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This Ancient Roman Scroll Was Burned to A Crisp 2,000 Years Ago. Now, Researchers Are Reading What’s Inside With AI
X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.
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 ...
Badly burnt scroll digitally unwrapped to provide first look in 2,000 years
The scrolls, believed to contain Greek philosophy, were destroyed by the 79AD Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption ...
AI used to crack the code of Oxford’s ancient scroll
This is not the first of its kind. The Vesuvius Challenge is a global initiative that was launched in 2023 to discover the contents of the Herculaneum Scrolls without physical intervention to the ...
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A.I. Is Decoding a Mysterious, Ancient Herculaneum Scroll at Oxford
Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team ...