One of the words that have been translated so far is the Ancient Greek διατροπ, meaning “disgust”, which appears twice within a few columns. In July 2024, the scroll was scanned at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scroll was scanned by Diamond Light Source ... One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for “disgust.” Scholars are being encouraged to join in the effort to ...

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 ...