https://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/index.php/papyri/When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, "the only surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman world...""But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts crumbled to dust."Every generation that followed faced the same dilemma: They could wait for technology to advance, abandoning hope of reading the ancient texts in their own lifetime. Or they could try to open the scrolls themselves — and risk destroying them.In recent years, researchers have settled on a third option. Using advanced imaging and artificial intelligence, they're deciphering the scrolls without needing to unroll them at all.The Vesuvius Challenge has accelerated the process by turning it into a public competition, complete with cash prizes. In 2023, a student won $40,000 for deciphering a single word — "purple" — from an unopened scroll. Later, contestants would identify 2,000 Greek characters from one scroll ($700,000) and the title of another ($60,000). Now, for the very first time, researchers have recovered all surviving text from a single scroll. The nearly five-foot-long segment includes roughly 20 columns of ancient Greek philosophy, accessible for the first time in nearly 2,000 years."The tech actually does look like magic, but it's not," Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, said at a press conference. (The article points out that Seales partnered with two Silicon Valley investors in 2023 to launch the Vesuvius Challenge, and is now hailing "the restoration of lost voices from the ancient world."Seales has been working on virtually unwrapping the scrolls since the early 2000s. The process involved imaging the bundles of papyrus using technology similar to CT scanners, isolating thin layers and then stitching them together....
https://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/index.php/the-story-of-herculaneum/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-have-deciphered-the-surviving-fragments-of-a-2000-year-old-philosophical-treatise-frozen-in-time-by-mount-vesuvius-eruption-180989036/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-21-year-old-used-ai-to-decipher-text-from-a-scroll-that-hasnt-been-read-in-2000-years-180983084/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/https://scrollprize.org/https://engr.uky.edu/people/brent-seales
>>537956499Shit posts from 2 thousand years ago Is there a pepe in there?
>>>/x/
>>537956499i'd like to erupt inside her
>>537956499She gave me a massive eruption indeed.
>>537956499Sex with Argentinian women
>>537956499Tits could be bigger, maybe a mild eruption.
>>537956616actually, based on the recovered graffiti on the walls they found there is a massive possibility.it read like something off a /b/ thread'titus and arus were here and are bros for life'shit like that
>>537956499You should use more effort than llm writing.
>posts off topic coomer baitnot reading your thread faggotgo fuck yourself
>>537956700Stop acting like an Indian and shut the fuck up.
>>537956616Most likely at least christcuck vs pagan threads
