An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...

Such virtual unrolling is a two-stage process pioneered by W. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky.

Jenny Wiley was a frontier woman who survived captivity and became a legend of Kentucky ...

“It’s like a dream” to have reached this point, says Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, who has been working to read the scrolls for 20 years.

Dr. Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky, led the charge to adopt these methods. In 2023, Seales launched the ambitious Vesuvius Challenge alongside ...

Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and cofounder of the Vesuvius Challenge, said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date ...

Scientists can use CT scans and AI to digitally unwrap scrolls, reading their contents without compromising their fragile structures ...

The plan for noninvasive reading of the Herculaneum papyri was first pursued by University of Kentucky computer scientist Brent Seales in 2007. He worked on the problem for about 15 years.

Brent Seales, of the University of Kentucky, has developed methods for scanning scrolls with computer tomography, unwrapping them virtually with computer software, and visualizing the ink with ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Prof. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky about deciphering tightly wound, charred scrolls from the 1st Century C.E. using X-rays and artificial intelligence.