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This 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Unearthed In Israel Records A Dramatic Criminal Trial In The Roman Empire
While looking through the archives at the Israel Antiquities Authority, an ancient scroll caught the eye of Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel of Hebrew University. The scroll had been classified as ...
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This Ancient Roman Scroll Was Burned to A Crisp 2,000 Years Ago. Now, Researchers Are Reading What’s Inside With AI
Among the ruins of Herculaneum, archaeologists later discovered a library filled with hundreds of ancient scrolls. Like everything around them, these manuscripts had been carbonized by the volcano ...
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AI deciphered text on these ancient fossilized scrolls. Here's what it said.
Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, is now decipherable, thanks to an open-source AI project. Computer science ...
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3D 'unwrapping' tools let scientists read an ancient Hebrew scroll
New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment. The digitization techniques, known as "volume ...