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Incredibly 'modern' word discovered inside ancient Mount Vesuvius scroll after 2,000 years
After months of using AI techonolgy to translate an ancient greek text, one of the first words uncovered from the 2,000 year old scroll was "digust." The scroll was from the eruption of Mount ...
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First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years
Scholars 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 AI
The 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 ...
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2,200-Year-Old Greek Pyramid-Shaped Structure Discovered Near Dead Sea
Archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old Greek pyramid-shaped structure near the Dead Sea, believed to be a former desert ...
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AI solves 2000-year-old scroll mystery
In detail, the trio targeted the Herculaneum papyri, a set of 800 Greek scrolls that were involved in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, leading the ancient Roman town Pompeii to be buried ...
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21-Year-Old Wins $40K After Using AI to Read First Word on 2,000-Year-Old Papyrus Scroll
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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AI deciphered text on these ancient fossilized scrolls. Here's what it said.
Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, is now decipherable, thanks to an open-source AI project. Computer science ...