AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...
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4,000-year-old footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption thousands of years before the famous one
Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...
Footprints Reveal Ancient Escape From Vesuvius—1,800 Years Before Pompeii’s Destruction
The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...
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Scientists issue warning: Italy is not prepared for possible eruption of “one of world’s most dangerous volcanoes”
Scientists and NASA have warned that a potential eruption of Italy’s mount Vesuvius may be a reality, with 3 million Italians ...
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Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years
A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to X-ray imaging and machine learning ...
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Incredibly modern word discovered inside ancient Mount Vesuvius scroll after 2,000 years
After months of using AI techonolgy to translate an ancient greek text, one of the first words uncovered from the 2,000 year ...
‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius.
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AI is Decoding Oxford's Mysterious Herculaneum Scroll
Among the ancient Greek words identified so far are ἀδιάληπτος (foolish), διατροπή (disgust), φοβ (fear), and βίου (life).