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  2. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

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    In 2023, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and computer scientist Brent Seales announced the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to "decipher Herculaneum scrolls using 3D X-ray software". [ 38 ] [ 39 ] The Vesuvius Challenge offered a $700,000 grand prize to be awarded to the first team that could extract four passages of text from two intact scrolls ...

  3. PHerc. Paris. 4 - Wikipedia

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    PHerc. Paris. 4 is a carbonized scroll of papyrus, dating to the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD. Part of a corpus known as the Herculaneum papyri, it was buried by hot-ash in the Roman city of Herculaneum during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It was subsequently discovered in excavations of the Villa of the Papyri from 1752–1754.

  4. List of libraries in the ancient world - Wikipedia

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    Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the town in 79 AD, it was rediscovered in 1752, around 1800 carbonized scrolls were found in the villa's top story. Using modern techniques such as multi-spectral imaging, previously illegible or invisible sections on scrolls that have been unrolled are now being deciphered. It is possible ...

  5. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...

  6. Villa of the Papyri - Wikipedia

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    The Villa of the Papyri before the eruption. A plan of Herculaneum and the location of the Villa. The Villa of the Papyri (Italian: Villa dei Papiri, also known as Villa dei Pisoni and in early excavation records as the Villa Suburbana) was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy.

  7. Roman Mysteries (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The series is divided into "scrolls", each based on one book, starting with The Secrets of Vesuvius. The stories are told in the same order as the book series, except for book 6, The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina, which is transposed to the second series. Books 11 and 12 were not adapted, and the series ends with the adaptation of Book 13.

  8. List of films based on classical mythology - Wikipedia

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    US film - The story of Jason and Argonauts, a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Argonauts: 1971 Russian: Аргонавты USSR - animated film Argonavtebi, or, a Merry Chronicle of a Dangerous Journey: 1986 USSR - TV movie

  9. List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western ...

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    Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: The Last Days of Pompeii: 1959: 79: Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: 79 A.D. 1962: 79: Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: Pompeii: The Last Day: 2003: 79: Docu-drama that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 ...