AI helps scholars read scroll buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD79

Words on mysterious scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius eruption deciphered for first time after 2,000 years

Three researchers won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Scroll charred in Mount Vesuvius eruption partially deciphered, earning researchers $700,000 prize

Machine learning has helped decipher part of an ancient carbonized scroll found in a villa that likely once belonged to Julius Caesar’s father-in-law.

How researchers read an ancient scroll charred by the Mount Vesuvius eruption

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, a luxury villa in Herculaneum containing hundreds of ancient scrolls was engulfed, along with the town, in a layer of superheated ash.

AI helps decode scrolls destroyed during the Vesuvius eruption

A supergroup of techno-archaeologists have been the first to decode text from a set of scrolls found in the ruins of the Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum 2,000 years ago.

AI helps scientists read 'unreadable' Herculaneum scrolls

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to decode text on papyrus that was rolled and charred 2,000 years ago. So AI now looks back as well as forward.