Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    For hundreds of years people have dreamed of the day when technology could unlock these doors to the forgotten past. It’s simply incredible to be alive to witnesses the future that the people who first uncovered them hoped would come.

    • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      1 year ago

      My thoughts exactly. It’s wonderful that these artifacts were preserved just in the hope that they could be read someday.