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How X-Ray Offered Peek Inside 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll
The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was ...
AI Identifies Author of Charred Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for 2,000 Years
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...
Title and author of burned, still-rolled scroll decoded after nearly 2,000 years
Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...
Vesuvius challenge: AI unlocks text of burned philosophical treatise papyrus
The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July.
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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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Historic Italian town mulls ‘Venice-style’ entry fee to curb overcrowding, X-ray reveals Greek author of ancient scroll ...
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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 and author of burned, still-rolled scroll decoded after nearly 2,000 years
The scroll — named PHerc. 172 — is one of hundreds from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which was buried under volcanic debris when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, according to the ...
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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 ...
Title of scroll burnt to a crisp by Mt Vesuvius 2,000 years ago finally read by AI – & we even know who wrote them
RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago ...