A team working as part of the Vesuvius Challenge deciphered the scroll without ever unraveling it. The sealed, carbonized roll (top left); cross-sections through the X-ray scan revealing the spiraled ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius devastated the Roman city of Pompeii and its neighboring town, Herculaneum. Miraculously, however, a library of ancient scrolls at Herculaneum survived—in a ...

A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been virtually unrolled and partially deciphered with the help of artificial intelligence.

The scroll was first discovered in the 1750s but was too fragile to open. Using AI, scholars deciphered the full text and discovered a philosophical treaties on ethics and human progress. An ancient ...

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Long-lost works of ancient philosophy have been recovered from papyrus scrolls that were scorched by the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius and thought to be impossible to read. For the first time, ...

I've given this summer a nickname: The Summer Experiment. It's not about disappearing into a silent retreat, renouncing modern technology, or embracing the latest wellness trend. Instead, it's simply ...

Naples, June 25: A carbonised papyrus scroll buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago has been virtually unwrapped and read using artificial intelligence. Researchers ...