AI Deciphers Entire Herculaneum Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for the First Time
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Vittoria Benzine
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For the first time, an entire scroll from Herculaneum — the PHerc. 1667 — has been fully deciphered using artificial intelligence, without physically opening it. The scroll was buried and carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and was discovered in the 1750s at the Villa of the Papyri. A team associated with the University of Kentucky's Vesuvius Challenge used AI and advanced imaging to read the ancient text, which discusses pleasure, music, and the senses — likely authored by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. This breakthrough opens the door to reading hundreds of other unopened scrolls from the same library.
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Twitter / XAI Deciphers Entire Herculaneum Scroll Buried by Vesuvius for the First Timenews.artnet.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledAfter centuries, papyrologists have finally translated a scroll immortalized by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.
Using previously unimaginable technology, a team associated with the University of Kentucky's Vesuvius Challenge read PHerc. 1667—without even opening it.
Historians believe the Villa of the Papyri, which opened to the public in 2003, belonged to Roman senator Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus.
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