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Scientists Read 4,000-Year-Old Letters Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes — Curiosmos
3+ week, 6+ day ago (811+ words) Researchers are using high-definition X-ray CT and virtual unwrapping to read cuneiform letters that remain sealed inside their ancient clay envelopes. For thousands of years, some letters from Mesopotamia have remained exactly where their writers left them: inside small clay…...
Maybe The Voynich Manuscript Was Never Meant to Be Solved
4+ week, 2+ day ago (395+ words) Six Hundred Gold Ducats for a Book No One Could Read Rudolf II kept his most prized possessions close. Astrolabes. Alchemical texts. A …...
📜 Text charred in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD, read in full 2,000 years later
4+ week, 2+ day ago (420+ words) Researchers have read a complete scroll from Herculaneum. The scrolls were carbonised by the heat and are so fragile they cannot be physically unrolled without being destroyed. Instead, high-resolution scans and computational techniques are used to virtually unwrap the scrolls....
Centuries-old secrets uncovered: AI finally deciphers mysterious ancient manuscripts
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (678+ words) Deciphering a single page of 12th-century Latin takes years of training. Transcribing a manuscript that runs several hundred pages can be a life’s work for a single researcher. Yet teams from Inria (the French Institute for Research in Computer Science…...
Recovering deleted text in the notebook: 3D forensics to the rescue
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (223+ words) foro3d.com The classic notebook, that paper object we believed immune to technology, becomes the new forensic battlefield. Recovering erased annotations through 3D pipeline techniques is no longer science fiction. We analyze how surface topography and digital shading reveal the grooves left…...
Why the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Is Still Impossible to Decode
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (243+ words) Today, the Voynich text has been transcribed into a standardized form to allow computer-aided analysis. Inside: thousands of words constructed from a limited set of characters. Their distribution isn’t random. Certain terms crop up frequently, others only show up in…...
Archeologists restore large fresco on the ceiling of a home in Pompeii from 2,000 years ago
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (581+ words) POMPEII, Italy – History lovers can rejoice over the recent announcement of the restoration of a fresco lost during the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii, Italy. Officials at the Pompeii Archaeological Park have successfully restored the ceiling of a…...
Pompeii archaeologists unveil stunning fresco ceiling in ancient banquet hall - AOL
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (340+ words) Pompeii, which was buried by the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, is a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of the country’s most popular tourist attractions. The archaeologists presented the ceiling vault late on Thursday, at the end…...
Like a jigsaw, Pompeii fresco pieced back together from tiny fragments
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (58+ words) The Times Like a jigsaw, Pompeii fresco pieced back together from tiny fragments After a months-long painstaking excavation, archaeologists are reconstructing a scene showing the marriage of Dionysus and Ariadne £1 for 3 months Enjoy unlimited access to all articles. Ends soon....
Italy's shattered Pompeii frescoes could get a second life with soft-handed AI robots
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (455+ words) Artificial intelligence and a two-armed robotic system with soft grippers may soon help revive some of Pompeii's broken wall paintings, giving artworks buried since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius a chance to be reconstructed. For archaeologists, the promise lies in…...