First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years
This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...
Footprints Reveal Ancient Escape From Vesuvius—1,800 Years Before Pompeii’s Destruction
The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2 ...
‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
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AI Tools Help Decipher Scroll Burned In Mount Vesuvius Volcanic Eruption
Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...
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Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city
Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption ... Upper stores have seldom been found among the ruins of the ancient town, which was destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius volcano and buried under up ...
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Using A.I., Researchers Peer Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius
Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...
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AI Revives 2,000-Year-Old Roman Scroll Burned in Mount Vesuvius Eruption
172, is one piece to a larger puzzle — for years, researchers have pursued restoration of the Herculaneum papyri, a series of over 1,800 scrolls burned and carbonized during the eruption of Mount ...
Elon Musk is looking for the secrets of Ancient Rome and has paid for it: his goal is the Herculaneum papyri
A groundbreaking project seeks to unlock the secrets of ancient Roman philosophy with the help of cutting-edge technology and ...
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Scientists digitally "unroll" ancient scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius
London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...
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First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years
Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ... information about ancient Rome and Greece contained ...