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Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79AD, the secret of a papyrus scroll kept their secrets hidden for centuries. Now one has been deciphered by AI.
With the help of AI, 15 passages have been deciphered from a 2,000-year-old unrolled Herculaneum scroll, providing a glimpse into the thoughts of an ancient philosopher.
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.
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In 1756, Abbot Piaggio, conserver of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library, used a machine he also invented, [11] to unroll the first scroll, which took four years (millimeters per day). [ 17 ] [ 13 ] The results were then copied (since the writing disappeared: see above), reviewed by Hellenist academics, and then corrected once more, if ...
Philodemus of Gadara (Ancient Greek: Φιλόδημος ὁ Γαδαρεύς, Philodēmos, "love of the people"; c. 110 – prob. c. 40 or 35 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher [1] and poet. He studied under Zeno of Sidon in Athens, before moving to Rome, and then to Herculaneum.
Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...
He believed that the treasure in the scroll was real—a view now held by most scholars [9] —and led an expedition to attempt to find items mentioned in the scroll, though without success. During this period Allegro also published two popular books on the Dead Sea scrolls, The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956) and The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1958).