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The scroll’s title, “On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues and In Whom They Are and About What,” was also deciphered. This further indicates the philosopher’s main message on how best to ...

The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was written by an ancient Greek philosopher, Philodemus.

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic eruption. Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on ...

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. AI has helped decode words from a scroll burned in Mount Vesuvius’ A.D. 79 eruption — without unrolling it.

One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning “disgust,” which appears twice within a few columns of text, the Bodleian Libraries said. “It’s an ...

They’ve already translated one word, “διατροπή,” which means “disgust” in ancient Greek and appears at least twice within the text. The scroll in question is called PHerc. 172.