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Deciphering ancient charred texts - the power of a prize.

The Vesuvius Prize reward has encouraged work on deciphering scans of ancient charred scrolls from Herculaneum.


"First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed Marchant, Jo. Nature 2024. ... Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers."


Source: www.nature.com

"Herculaneum papyri" by Sara Stabile, Francesca Palermo, Inna Bukreeva, Daniela Mele, Vincenzo Formoso, Roberto Bartolino & Alessia Cedola is licensed under CC BY 4.0