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AI Reveals Title and Author of Scroll Burned by Vesuvius That No One Could Read for 2,000 Years
To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...
Timeless Treasures: 7 Of The Oldest Libraries That Still Hold Ancient Secrets
It was destroyed in the 12th century, it contained thousands of manuscripts on philosophy, medicine, etc. It dates back to ...
Herculaneum scroll's secret AUTHOR is uncovered after 2,000 years - as scientists use AI to virtually unwrap the priceless manuscript
With help from AI, researchers have found the title and author inside one of the Herculaneum scrolls that is housed at the ...
Title of scroll burnt to a crisp by Mt Vesuvius 2,000 years ago finally read by AI – & we even know who wrote them
RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago ...
Vesuvius challenge: AI unlocks text of burned philosophical treatise papyrus
The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July.
Former student returns college library books checked out 20 years earlier
Librarians at the University of Oxford's Lady Margaret Hall college said "all is forgiven" after a former student returned ...