RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence to help them decipher a 2,000-year-old scroll unearthed from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79CE, burying a lib…
RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence to help them decipher a 2,000-year-old scroll unearthed from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius.
Pompeii's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79CE, burying a library of scrolls under volcanic ash where the messages inside haveResearchers and AI experts can bag $700,000 if they are the first team to read at least four separate passages in the scrolls by December 31stThe scrolls are believed to have been stored in an enormous villa, once owed by the father-in-law of Julis CaesarEach scroll is incredibly damaged and delicate, and therefore, rather difficult to open - let alone read.
The Vesuvius Challenge was launched by scholars from the University of Kentucky in March with the aim to make their decoding a global effort.The Challenge offered up thousands of X-ray images of charred Herculaneum scrolls for anyone to have a stab at decoding.experts can bag $700,000 if they are the first team to read at least four separate passages in the scrolls by December 31st.
Any submissions are reviewed by a team of developers and papyrologists for legitimacy and plausibility.Luke Farritor, a computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Youssef Nader, a biorobotics grad student at the Free University of Berlin in Germany stumbled across the same discover separately.This means "porphyras" using modern Greek characters, otherwise known in English as "purple".In ancient Rome, purple often represented wealth and status.
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AI deciphers ancient scroll buried in the ashes of Pompeii’s Mount Vesuvius to reveal 2,000-year-old s...RESEARCHERS have used artificial intelligence to help them decipher a 2,000-year-old scroll unearthed from the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79CE, burying a lib…
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