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The long-standing mystery of the unread ancient scrolls of Mount Vesuvius has finally been solved after centuries, thanks to AI. The credit for it goes to artificial intelligence (AI) and the winners ...

A team of scholars has used cutting edge technology to piece together sections of a 2,000 year-old scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed tens of thousands as it ...

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What Happened: The Vesuvius Challenge, initiated in March by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Brent Seales, was designed to decode the Herculaneum Papyri, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls charred by ...