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Researchers Decipher Herculaneum Scrolls Found at Pompeii
Using AI technology, researchers were able to digitally unroll and ancient Herculaneum scroll found in the wreckage of ...
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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Title Of Ancient Burnt Herculaneum Scroll Identified For First Time In 2,000 Years
The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Butchered giraffe and glass BRAIN found in ancient treasure trove of objects buried by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago
IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.
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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 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 ...