The heat and volcanic ash from Vesuvius destroyed the town and preserved the scrolls, but in an unreadable state, turning them into charred fragile blocks that disintegrate if unrolled physically.

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

After nearly 2,000 years, a burnt scroll from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius reveals its title and author. Thanks to AI and the Vesuvius Challenge, the Greek philosopher Philodemus 'On Vices' is ...

Nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in Mount Vesuvius ash, a charred Roman scroll has revealed its author and title without even being unrolled. The scroll, named PHerc. 172, is one of hundreds ...

Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization ... extract letters and symbols from X-ray images of the unrolled papyri. Thousands of 3D X-ray images of two rolled ...

The Vesuvius Challenge A University of Nebraska undergraduate student has made history by using AI to read a section of a 2,000-year-old scroll. Luke Farritor was the first person to decipher a ...

Millennia later, in the mid-18th century, archeologists began to unearth the city, including its famed libraries, but the scrolls they found were too fragile to be unrolled and read; their ...

The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls ... been established from unrolled papyri.

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both ... known from the papyri that were physically unrolled — best known are On Property Management ...