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AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius

Researchers at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have deciphered yet another scroll carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The scroll—designated PHerc. 172—is one of nearly 2,000 carbonized scrolls and charred papyrus fragments found in the lost Roman town of Herculaneum in 1750, and one of three […]

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