Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius.

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's "too fragile to ever be physically opened", said the BBC. That delicacy ...

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team competing in the Vesuvius Challenge. Among the ancient Greek words identified ...

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the Vesuvius Challenge announced that three young students had won its $700,000 grand prize for using AI to help researchers read about 5% of another scroll, the subject of which was Greek ...

revealing rows and columns of text believed to be Greek philosophy. "We're confident we will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it's the first time we've really been ...

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Last year, a Vesuvius Challenge team managed to read about 5% of another Herculaneum scroll. Its subject was Greek Epicurean philosophy, which teaches that fulfilment can be found through the pleasure ...

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Farritor was part of an award-winning team that deciphered portions of an ancient Greek scroll, a LinkedIn post shows. He is also a Thiel Fellow, last year winning $100,000 and access to a network ...