2024-02-06
Within a few years we may be able to read over 800 entire scrolls from this library that have previously been too charred to decipher. A development in our understanding of ancient literature whose magnitude will rival the Renaissance!
Bloomberg
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history
Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go. Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: N...