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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 ...
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 ...
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Herculaneum scroll's secret AUTHOR is uncovered after 2,000 years - as scientists use AI to virtually unwrap the priceless manuscript
Few objects pique the curiosity of academics quite like the Herculaneum scrolls – the ancient documents buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. These priceless rolled-up ...
AI decodes 2,000-year-old burned, still-rolled scroll: Reveals title and author after centuries
After nearly 2,000 years, a burnt scroll from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius reveals its title and author. Thanks to AI and ...
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 ...
2,000 year-old Pompeii dig reveals giraffe bone and rare glassified human brain
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...
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 ...
Canadian Red Cross conducting mock disaster response in Whitehorse
The Canadian Red Cross is holding a training exercise in Whitehorse on Thursday. Staff and volunteers will practise ...
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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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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 ...
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.