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Dead Sea Scroll origins to be decoded using AI for first time
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (493+ words) WATCH: Mind-blowing archaeology discoveries which bring history back to life The new international project has secured a prestigious European Research Council grant worth 2.5 million A major new international research initiative aims to shed fresh light on the origins of the…...
Lingnan University co-develops first large-scale AI archaeological system for ancient Chinese plant seeds
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (654+ words) Ancient plant seeds provide important archaeological evidence for studying the evolution of human civilisation. Lingnan University and Shandong University have jointly developed the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) archaeological system dedicated to identifying ancient Chinese plant seeds. The system emulates…...
Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (814+ words) Dublin, Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that's a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A, the writing system of the Bronze Age Minoan civilisation…...
AI brings ancient carbonized papyrus back to life—historians left speechless
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (657+ words) Today, against all odds, some of these nearly-charred rolls can be deciphered anew—thanks to a fusion of cutting-edge AI and modern physics. A global effort is underway, with research teams from multiple universities, including the venerable University of Oxford,…...
Artificial intelligence deciphers 2,000-year-old papyrus buried by Vesuvius using advanced tomography
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (409+ words) Modern science has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough in reading an ancient papyrus that was buried for nearly 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. This achievement was made possible thanks to artificial intelligence and has opened a window to knowledge…...
Artificial intelligence has just read a papyrus scroll carbonized by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, without opening or destroying it, and every recovered word feels like a secret doorway into a Roman library trapped by fire
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (994+ words) AI-driven X-ray imaging has read a carbonized Herculaneum scroll intact, turning a lost Roman library into a new source of knowledge. By Sonia Ramírez · Editorial process A blackened papyrus roll buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been read…...
Artificial intelligence has helped decode a scroll from Herculaneum in its entirety for
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (482+ words) An international team of researchers has, for the first time, fully deciphered an ancient Roman scroll from Herculaneum that was charred during the eruption of Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. To do so, the scientists used artificial intelligence and modern digital…...
The Phaistos Disk – Center for the Humanities
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (255+ words) The University of Rhode Island Bridget Buxton, History Department The Phaistos Disk, discovered in the ruins of a Minoan Palace on Crete in 1908, is a unique stamped spiral inscription conventionally dated to the MMIII period c. 3700 years ago. Today it is…...
2,000-Year-Old Mystery Solved: AI Deciphers Ancient Scroll
2+ mon, 18+ hour ago (362+ words) For 2,000 years, the contents of the scroll from Herculaneum remained undeciphered. Now a breakthrough has been made. A charred scroll that had been sealed away since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. has revealed its secret. As part of the “Vesuvius…...
Impossible Factual, ZDF Studios co-developing “The Lost Library of Herculaneum”
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