Feb 5, 2025 · A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was ...

5 days ago · Housed today at the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford, PHerc. 172 is one of three Herculaneum scrolls currently in the collection. In contrast to the other “Herculaneum papyri”, the writing ink on this scroll is much denser and therefore more visible to X-ray scans. Researchers believe this characteristic will help refine the AI’s ability to ...

Feb 7, 2025 · The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a historic breakthrough in the endeavour to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum. Researchers have successfully generated the first image of the inside of scroll PHerc. 172, one of three Herculaneum scrolls housed at …

Feb 5, 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 buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The strides made to unroll this scroll mark a significant step forward in our ability to recover texts from the ancient world.

Feb 5, 2025 · 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, the ...

The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Feb 5, 2025 · Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. Over a thousand scrolls were found in the remains of Herculaneum, but the secrets of what was written are only just beginning to be revealed in detail.

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 passages from the...

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 finally yielding their secrets, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Feb 5, 2024 · These lumps of carbonized ash — known as the Herculaneum scrolls — constitute the only library that survives from the ancient world, but are too fragile to open. The winning entry, announced on...