The painting “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” by English artist John Martin, depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Courtesy of John Martin via Wikimedia Commons   Despite ...
UK scientists used AI to "virtually unroll" ancient scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. UK scientists ...
Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...
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A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...
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Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
The 2,000-year-old scroll was burned to a crisp by the volcano, but advanced technology has helped researchers work out ...
Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a ...