US EditionAI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
- A badly burnt scroll from Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years.
- Scientists used X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence to virtually unfurl the scroll, revealing text.
- Further work is needed to fully decipher the scroll's contents, but results are promising.
- Brent Seales, co-founder of the Vesuvius Challenge, expressed that they were "thrilled with the successful imaging of this scroll.
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One of the scrolls of Herculano, which is guarded by the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, has been subjected to a process of digital reading, revealing the first words thanks to X-rays and artificial intelligence. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in 1752 in a luxurious residence in the Roman city of Herculano, which, along with neighbouring Pompeii, was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The residence was given t…
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A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now decipher thanks to AI and a particle accelerator.
High-Tech Tools Used to Examine Ancient Scroll From Herculaneum - Archaeology Magazine
The first text revealed on the scroll OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a charred scroll of papyrus measuring more than 30 feet long from Herculaneum, a Roman city buried in ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, has been examined with a synchrotron at Diamond Light Source. The X-ray beam produced by the synchrotron can reveal minute details of the scroll without damaging it, said Adrian Mancuso of Diamond Light Source. “…
AI and Scientists Unite to Decipher Old Scrolls Charred by the Vesuvius Volcano
LONDON—Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add…
A charred papyrus nearly two millennia ago, during the volcanic eruption that led to the destruction of the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae, has been “opened” virtually by a team of researchers from...
Scientists use AI, high-tech X-ray to decipher ancient scrolls charred by Vesuvius
LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential…
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