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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.
Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were burned in the Vesuvius eruption.
April 30, 2024 at 8:52 AM. 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 ...
Image contrast and brightness were enhanced to better visualize the details visible to the naked eye on their external surface. [1] The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized when the villa was engulfed by the eruption of Mount ...
Material: vellum: Size: ≈ 23.5 cm × 16.2 cm × 5 cm (9.3 in × 6.4 in × 2.0 in) Format: One column in the page body, with slightly indented right margin and with paragraph divisions, and often with stars in the left margin; [12] the rest of the manuscript appears in the form of graphics (i.e. diagrams or markings for certain parts related to illustrations), containing some foldable parts
The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth ...
A college student seeking a $1 million prize used AI to decode part of a 2,000-year-old scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Pythia (machine learning) Pythia[1][2] is an ancient text restoration model that recovers missing characters from a damaged text input using deep neural networks. It was created by Yannis Assael, Thea Sommerschield, and Jonathan Prag, researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford. [3]