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There's been a "very exciting development" in the two-year-old Vesuvius Challenge, an effort to decode ancient scrolls ...
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...
To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...
The scroll was found in the remains of the Roman town of Herculaneum, roughly 12 miles from Pompeii, and was written by the ...
PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...
Despite being rendered “unreadable” due to the destruction of the eruption, experts have managed to use new and powerful methods on this ancient scroll, bringing with it its centuries-old secrets.
The Vesuvius Challenge A University of Nebraska undergraduate student has made history by using AI to read a section of a 2,000-year-old scroll. Luke Farritor was the first person to decipher a ...