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Inside Ancient Herculaneum Scroll Seen For First Time Since Vesuvius Erupted 2,000 Years Ago
Now the image of the virtually unrolled scroll has been revealed, and it shows a considerably part of the papyrus along with columns of text (around 26 lines of each column). The text is now being ...
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‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius ...
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A former SpaceX intern and 2 other students won $700,000 for deciphering a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll using AI. Here's what it said.
Currently, researchers have only unrolled and deciphered about 5% of a single scroll. Scholars are hoping to find lost treasures from Aristotle or Homer in the other 280 papyri, Nature reported.
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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
X-ray scans and AI have meant the inside of ancient scroll can be revealed A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside ...