CNN

‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll

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CNN

Researchers reveal first full passages decoded from famously inscrutable Herculaneum scrolls

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PBS

Researchers use AI to decipher ancient scroll buried in ash by Vesuvius eruption

Amna Nawaz: Ancient scrolls that were buried in volcanic ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius are now being deciphered 2,000 years later thanks in part to artificial intelligence. Martin Stew of ...
Ars Technica

AI helps decipher first text of “unreadable” ancient Herculaneum scroll

Hundreds of badly charred ancient Roman scrolls found in a Roman villa have long been believed to be unreadable, but a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has ...