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As a result of the volcanic eruption, the heat transformed hundreds of papyrus scrolls ... from the inside of a scroll.” Thea Sommerschield, a historian of ancient Greece and Rome at Ca ...
A new analysis of Dead Sea Scrolls that paired radiocarbon dating with AI has determined many of the biblical manuscripts are ...
The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...
A researcher used an AI program that analyzed handwriting data which, paired with radiocarbon dating, pointed towards the ...
For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material ...
For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum ... to university for wealthy Roman young men was going to Greece to spend time in Athens with philosophers,” Draycott ...
Herculaneum, an ancient Italian city at the mountain ... and literary culture of the Roman Empire. Papyrus scrolls never survived Greece or Italy’s wet climate, so the corpus of textual ...
London — The Herculaneum scrolls ... mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were ...
Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption ... decipher the artefacts - with the assistance of AI. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at ...