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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.
The secrets of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll
The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...
Message on 2,000-year-old scroll burnt to crisp in Vesuvius eruption revealed for first time using incredible technique
AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have ...
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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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 ...
AI gives first tantalising look inside a 2,000- year-old Roman scroll
The scroll was discovered in the town of Herculaneum, a town destroyed in the volcanic eruption that buried neighbouring Pompeii. View on euronews ...
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Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius
The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in England. A team involved in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition offering ...
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Message on 2,000-year-old scroll burnt to crisp in Vesuvius eruption revealed for first time using incredible technique
The team now has the task of deciphering the writing ... each layer of the scroll. AI is then used to detect the ink - a tricky feat since both the papyrus (thick paper) and the ink have both ...
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AI gives first tantalising look inside a 2,000- year-old Roman scroll
The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... and Silicon Valley backers. The thick, paper-like material called papyrus cannot be physically opened as ...