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This Ancient Roman Scroll Was Burned to A Crisp 2,000 Years Ago. Now, Researchers Are Reading What’s Inside With AI
For Nicole Gilroy, head of book conservation ... Unlike other ancient texts, which were often copied and recopied over centuries, some of these scrolls are likely originals, preserved exactly ...
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3D 'unwrapping' tools let scientists read an ancient Hebrew scroll
New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient ... the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text from the book of Leviticus, according to ...
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First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years
Artificial intelligence is even peering through the most impenetrable of artifacts: ancient, charred scrolls that are too delicate to be unfurled. Scholars have deciphered some of the first words ...
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Vesuvius Scrolls
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 ...
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Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years
An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago, thanks to artificial intelligence and a high-powered X ...
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2000-Year Old Charred Manuscripts Reveal Their Secrets
Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...
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A former SpaceX intern and 2 other students won $700,000 for deciphering a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll using AI. Here's what it said.
Named the Herculaneum Scrolls, after the city they were found in, the collection is the only library left from the ancient world. But their secrets remained unknown for the last 272 years.