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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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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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21-Year-Old Wins $40K After Using AI to Read First Word on 2,000-Year-Old Papyrus Scroll
The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
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AI deciphered text on these ancient fossilized scrolls. Here's what it said.
Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, is now decipherable, thanks to an open-source AI project. Computer science ...