Brent Seales

Researchers have used artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to decipher a carbonized scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, recovering all surviving text from a single scroll…

Scientists have fully read a charred Herculaneum scroll without opening it, using X-ray tomography and machine learning. The scroll, PHerc. 1667, contains a Stoic philosophical treatise on ethics. Thi…