[ExI] Herculaneum scroll revealed

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 20:12:09 UTC 2024


This is amazing! They have managed to read the charred Herculaneum
scroll from the Vesuvius eruption.

<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00346-8>
Quotes:
05 February 2024
First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed
Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of
2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and
capers.
By Jo Marchant

A team of student researchers has made a giant contribution to solving
one of the biggest mysteries in archaeology by revealing the content
of Greek writing inside a charred scroll buried 2,000 years ago by the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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BillK


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