Researchers first have to identify 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 turned to carbon and are ...

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 ...

The scroll was discovered in the town of Herculaneum, a town destroyed in the volcanic eruption that buried neighbouring ...

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scorched scroll. With the help of X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence, scientists have peered inside a 2,000-year-old Roman papyrus ... the contents of scrolls burned in the volcanic ...

(Credit: Diamond Light Source) A 2,000-year-old Roman ... The scroll, named PHerc. 172, is one piece to a larger puzzle — for years, researchers have pursued restoration of the Herculaneum papyri, a ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... In the past, some of the documents, which are made from a thick paper-like material called papyrus, were prised open but they crumbled ...

The scroll, which was burnt during the devastating 79AD eruption, is too delicate to be unrolled. However, through virtual unwrapping using AI and X-ray imaging, experts have been able to uncover ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius ... to digitally unroll and start reading one of the ancient scrolls. The scroll in question, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three stored at the ...