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How AI Is Deciphering Lost Scrolls From the Roman Empire

An intact Greek philosophical text, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.

The Herculaneum papyri were too fragile to unwrap for centuries. Now, they may not have to be.

source https://gizmodo.com/ai-herculaneum-scrolls-computer-vision-transformers-2000481322

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