AI has helped read a 2000-year-old scroll consumed by volcanic ash — and this could help rewrite what we know of antiquity

Scroll from the ancient Roman city Herculaneum, contained Greek letters on several lines of the papyrus

October 19, 2023 · 1 min · 65 words · Lisa Jones

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Now, thanks to one students machine learning model, we may soon have a way of reading them.

This inspired Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to start the challenge.

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His machine learning model eventually found enough evidence to find the word porphyras, which means purple.

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