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Scientists read entire scroll from Herculaneum for the first time. Artificial intelligence helped
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Scientists read entire scroll from Herculaneum for the first time. Artificial intelligence helped

This groundbreaking achievement marks a significant step towards reading hundreds of ancient manuscripts found in Herculaneum, a Roman city destroyed by the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The Vesuvius Challenge initiative is making all data and digital models available online, and even offers a $1 million prize for the next team to fully read another scroll. Brent Seales, a computer science professor, expressed his belief that every scroll in the collection could eventually be read. The team used high-resolution scans and computational methods to virtually unwrap the fragile scrolls and detect ink traces.
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