Lesser-known Herculaneum, which was devastated by the ... the only surviving library of the ancient world. Its thousands of scrolls were carbonised into hardened lumps by the heat of the volcanic ...

Nearly 2,000 years after they were buried the scrolls are still to spill their secrets READ MORE: Plato's final hours 'revealed' by Herculaneum scrolls The Herculaneum Scrolls contain hugely ...

They were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, scientists are offering £400,000 to the person who can decipher the charred Herculaneum Scrolls.

Modern scanning techniques and machine learning tools have made it possible to read fragments of the heavily-damaged Herculaneum scrolls. Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be ...

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman ...

Farritor's use of AI to read letters from the Herculaneum scrolls came as they were considered too fragile to unfurl and, according to the Vesuvius Challenge website, they would "turn to dust" if ...

In the mid-18th century, workers at Herculaneum discovered more than 1,000 papyrus scrolls that were singed and covered with debris when volcanic mud buried the city. Scholars later determined ...

Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri ... contest was created to accelerate the research and discovery of the scrolls after University of Kentucky researchers led by Dr. Brent Seales ...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under tons of ash.

The last mortal remains of his fellow residents of Herculaneum were found mostly ... the details of their life 2,000 years ago: papyrus scrolls, bread, olives, bronze pitchers, furniture, fresh ...

NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) Read after burning. One of three Herculaneum scrolls housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, has been digitally unrolled using X-ray ...

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