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AI Identifies Author of Charred Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for 2,000 Years
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual unwrapping.
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AI decodes title and author of charred, still-rolled scroll after nearly 2,000 years
PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...
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AI Is Deciphering Ancient Inscriptions That Experts Have Struggled With for Centuries
These scrolls, discovered in the ruins of the Roman city of Herculaneum ... Meanwhile, Korean researchers are using AI to ...
Nature4mon
How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
The first big project to show AI’s potential began life as a collaboration at the University of Oxford, UK, in 2017, where Thea Sommerschield was doing a PhD in ancient history and Yannis Assael ...
Greek Reporter7d
Diocles: The $15 Billion Athlete of the Ancient World
Gaius Appuleius Diocles, a man from the area of what is now Spain and Portugal, is the highest paid athlete the world has ...
Miami Herald28d
From theater of the Romans to weapons from era of Genghis Khan: See latest finds
After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins an ancient Roman theater ... with the help of AI tools and edited by ...