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Badly Burned Herculaneum Scroll Discovered In Pompeii Deciphered After 2,000 Years

Thanks to artificial intelligence, a Herculaneum scroll discovered in Pompeii has finally been deciphered more than 2,000 years after it was first written. According to a new study published in Nature ...
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X-rays Reveal Text on Scorched Herculaneum Scrolls

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it buried several seaside Roman cities including Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving them under thick volcanic material for many centuries. In the 1750s, hundreds ...
CNET

X-ray reveals the secrets of burned Vesuvius scrolls

Scrolls that were damaged, but not destroyed, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius may now be read for the first time in nearly two millennia. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...
CNN

Researchers reveal first full passages decoded from famously inscrutable Herculaneum scrolls

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

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