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AI gives first tantalising look inside a 2,000- year-old Roman scroll
The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum have been seen for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and X-ray imaging. The document is ...
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2,000-Year-Old Volcano-Burned Roman Scroll Is Read For The First Time Thanks To Genius Technique
Stephen Parsons, project lead for the Vesuvius Challenge, told the BBC,"We're confident we will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it's the first time we've really ...
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A former SpaceX intern and 2 other students won $700,000 for deciphering a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll using AI. Here's what it said.
After 2,000 years, we can finally read the scrolls." Related stories First-prize winner for the second time Farritor had already won first place in the Vesuvius Challenge's "First Letters Prize ...
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AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
Scholars and scientists have worked for more than 250 years on ways to decipher the scrolls, the vast majority of which are held in the National Library of Naples. Now that flex time is no longer ...