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AI Deciphers First Herculaneum Scroll Buried by Vesuvius

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

An AI system has successfully read text from a carbonized Herculaneum scroll, buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The scroll, part of the only surviving library from antiquity, was unreadable for centuries. Researchers used machine learning to detect ink and reveal Greek writing, opening access to hundreds more scrolls.

Meridian48 take
This demonstrates AI's ability to unlock historical data previously inaccessible, but the real test will be scaling the technique to the remaining scrolls without damaging them.
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