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AI helps recover complete text of Herculaneum scroll burnt by Mount Vesuvius
The blackened, fragile scrolls cannot be physically opened without severe damage. Researchers have instead used high-resolution scans and computational techniques to "virtually unwrap" them.
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AI cracks Hammurabi’s ancient script with near-perfect accuracy
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AI helps us decipher ancient texts, and in the process rewriting history
Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge had to develop their own programs to interpret existing 3D scans of the coiled scroll, with the virtual-unwrapping step being the bottleneck.
A 2,000-year-old wooden tablet reveals the oldest Latin text written by a woman
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