Article:Ian Sample
AI enables scholars to read Herculaneum scroll carbonised in AD79
A team of three student researchers used high-resolution CT scans and machine learning to decode over 2,000 Greek letters inside a scroll carbonised during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. The achievement secured the $700,000 grand prize in the Vesuvius Challenge.
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