Bodleian Library The ancient scroll was burnt to a crisp by the eruption of ... In the past, some of the documents, which are made from a thick paper-like material called papyrus, were prised ...

A badly burnt Roman scroll destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been “unwrapped” for the first time in 2,000 years by using AI. The document, which looks like a lump of ...

Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, Farritor used machine learning models to separate the carbonized ink from the carbonized paper, eventually revealing ... a global effort to decode the ...

Scientists have been able to read a badly burnt ancient Roman ... to help identify the ink on the scroll, which is easier said than done, as both the papyrus paper and ink are made from carbon ...

Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek ...

The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum have been ... and Silicon Valley backers. The thick, paper-like material called papyrus cannot be physically opened as ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum ... In the past, some of the documents, which are made from a thick paper-like material called papyrus, were prised open but they crumbled ...