How AI Can Uncover the World's Oldest Archeological Mysteries

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThis month, a trio of computer scientists won the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to use artificial intelligence to reveal four passages of ancient Greek encased for 2,000 years inside a charred scroll. The artifact was found at Herculaneum, a Roman resort town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.. This “kind of thing that happens every half century or so,” Richard Janko, a professor of classics at the University of Michigan a

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