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Computers could let archaeologists read hundreds of burnt scrolls from a Roman library

A college student seeking a $1 million prize used AI to decode part of a 2,000-year-old scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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For 2,000 years, no one has been able to read a word from ancient scrolls from the eruption of Vesuvius, which wiped out Pompeii, Italy.

Computers could let archaeologists read hundreds of burnt scrolls from a Roman library | Science & technology

For the first time, a machine learning technique has revealed Greek words in CT scans of fragile rolled-up papyrus

A visit to Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, officially started the programmed upgrade to Diamond II, a £519 million UK government investment predominantly from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Infrastructure Fund (86%) and the Wellcome Trust (14%). Click to read more...

A visit to Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, officially started the programmed upgrade to Diamond II, a £519 million UK government investment predominantly from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Infrastructure Fund (86%) and the Wellcome Trust (14%). Click to read more...

Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus. Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

The result could lead to a significant increase in the number of ancient texts that are available for scholars to study.