Feb 5, 2025 · One of the first words to be translated was the Ancient Greek διατροπή meaning ‘disgust’, which appears twice within a few columns of text. Since the scroll was scanned at …

Feb 7, 2025 · Researchers have successfully generated the first image of the inside of scroll PHerc. 172, one of three Herculaneum scrolls housed at the Bodleian Libraries, which was …

Feb 9, 2025 · Exterior of scroll PHerc. 172. Credit: Vesuvius Challenge “This scroll contains more recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll,” said Dr. Brent …

Feb 6, 2025 · Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius.

Scrolls were used by the Hebrews to record their religious texts, which today is referred to as the Tanakh. Some of these ancient scrolls are known today, i.e., the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Feb 5, 2025 · X-ray scans and AI have meant the inside of ancient scroll can be revealed A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing …

Feb 6, 2024 · A team of three students won $700,000 this week for using artificial intelligence to read passages from an ancient papyrus scroll.

Almost two millennia after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius hardened them into lumps of coal in 79 CE, previously indecipherable papyrus scrolls from the ancient library of Herculaneum are …

Feb 7, 2024 · After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete …

Oct 16, 2023 · The student, Luke Farritor, 21, used artificial intelligence to identify a single word on the unopened scroll: “porphyras,” an ancient Greek word for “purple,” researchers …