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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Vesuvius Challenge With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers have revealed some of the text inside a 2,000-year-old scroll that ... of scorched papyrus papers recovered in the 1750s ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

(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 ...