Ancient Herculaneum scroll piece revealed by AI – here’s what it says
The winners of the Vesuvius Challenge grand prize used technology to decipher a damaged papyrus scroll Vesuvius Challenge Artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient papyrus scroll, which was transformed into a lump of blackened carbon by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The first passages of readable text reveal never-before-seen musings from …