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First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 yearsScholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek ...
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This Ancient Roman Scroll Was Burned to A Crisp 2,000 Years Ago. Now, Researchers Are Reading What’s Inside With AIThe AI scanned for the faintest traces of ink, then digitally highlighted the faint letters, bringing the ancient text to light. The newly imaged scroll, PHerc. 172, contains the Greek word ...
A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...
In February 2024, the Vesuvius Challenge named Nebraska senior Luke Farritor as one of three co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for digitally deciphering at least four passages of a 2,000-year-old ...
She added, “I can actually see something from the inside of a scroll.” Thea Sommerschield, a historian of ancient Greece and Rome at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, explained, per Nature ...
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