Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery ...

During Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable. But now, researchers have been using artificial intelligence to reveal ...

Scientists have digitally "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum - providing the first glimpse inside the ancient document since it was buried by Mount ...

New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll ... the charred remains of the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text ...

The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll ... a section of a 2,000-year-old scroll. Luke Farritor was the ...

In February 2024, the Vesuvius Challenge named Nebraska senior Luke Farritor as one of three co-winners of its $700,000 Grand Prize for digitally deciphering at least four passages of a 2,000-year-old ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized ... that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the clarity ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls ... that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the clarity of the text. The process led to ...