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The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the grand prize winners of its global AI contest to virtually unwrap a still-rolled carbonized papyrus scroll from the ancient city of Herculaneum.
On Thursday, Brent Seales, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, (in partnership with EduceLab: A Digital Restoration Initiative, the Library of the Institut de France and founders of the Vesuvius Challenge) hosted a conference and livestream event at UK. Together, they presented a monumental breakthrough to announce — for the first time in more than 2,000 years — text has been read from part of the still-closed Herculaneum scrolls.
Researchers in Israel say they discovered four Roman-era swords believed to be from the 130s in a Dead Sea cave on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Researchers in Israel say they discovered four Roman-era swords believed to be from the 130s in a Dead Sea cave on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Restoring an ancient library from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius is now closer to a reality. To highlight the progress, this is the first in a four-video series featuring Brent Seales, University of Kentucky Alumni Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering and his Digital Restoration Initiative team.