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AI Cracks the Code of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Destroyed by Vesuvius
In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ...
AI Identifies Author of Charred Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for 2,000 Years
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...
ZME Science on MSN7d
AI Reveals Title and Author of Scroll Burned by Vesuvius That No One Could Read for 2,000 Years
To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...
Greek Reporter8d
Lost Work of Greek Philosopher Philodemus Unearthed from Herculaneum Scroll
A charred scroll unearthed at Herculaneum has been revealed to contain a work by the Greek philosopher Philodemus.
Front Page Detectives on MSN6d
Researchers Use AI to Digitally Unwrap a ‘Unreadable’ 2,000-Year-Old Vesuvius Scroll for the First Time
Researchers Use AI to Digitally Unwrap a ‘Unreadable’ 2,000-Year-Old Vesuvius Scroll for the First Time In a sun-drenched ...
Title of scroll burnt to a crisp by Mt Vesuvius 2,000 years ago finally read by AI – & we even know who wrote them
RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 2,000-year-old Vesuvius scroll finally deciphered
Archaeologists make groundbreaking discovery after "unreadable" scroll becomes legible by using powerful x-rays and AI, with ...
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AI reads 1900-year-old ancient papyri texts for the first time! Even humans failed at deciphering it
potentially uncovering vast amounts of untapped historical knowledge stored within the Villa of the Papyri. Additionally, a new $100,000 grand prize has been announced for teams capable of ...
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About the PapyGreek project
The Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri (PapyGreek) project fills a void in Greek scholarship: the papyrological corpus represents the post-Classical variety of Greek, a bridge between ...