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Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic eruption

May 05, 2025 | 08:00PM

AI reveals title of ‘unreadable’ Vesuvius scroll for first time
Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to digitally unroll many more

April 22, 2025 | 08:00PM

The text of dozens of burnt Herculaneum scrolls could soon be revealed
From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries

December 29, 2024 | 08:00PM

How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
Origin of the powerful calculation tool traced back to a mathematician from the Italian Renaissance

February 18, 2024 | 08:00PM

The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought
Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers

February 04, 2024 | 08:00PM

First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed
Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus

October 11, 2023 | 08:00PM

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time

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