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AI decodes title and author of charred, still-rolled scroll after nearly 2,000 years
PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...
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AI Reveals Title and Author of Scroll Burned by Vesuvius That No One Could Read for 2,000 Years
To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...
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AI reveals title of ‘unreadable’ Vesuvius scroll for first time
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 ...
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Title Of Ancient Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Identified For First Time In 2,000 Years
Contestants in the ongoing Vesuvius Challenge continue to reveal more information about the calcified scrolls once buried by ...
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Title of scroll burnt to a crisp by Mt Vesuvius 2,000 years ago finally read by AI – & we even know who wrote them
The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds a number of the scrolls, which have been left untouched for decadesCredit: Vesuvius Challenge Therefore, researchers have used a cutting-edge ...
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Title and author of burned, still-rolled scroll decoded after nearly 2,000 years
(CNN) — Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount ...