AI and X-ray tech reveal text in a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from Herculaneum without unrolling it.
Scientists have virtually "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from Herculaneum using AI and X-ray imaging, revealing rows and columns of text without physically opening it. The scroll, damaged in the 79 AD Mount Vesuvius eruption, is part of a collection of carbonized texts. Though not yet fully legible, the breakthrough offers hope for deciphering other ancient scrolls.
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