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Using AI to teach computers to read inside scrolls without having to open them in “The Herculaneum Scrolls” on SECRETS OF THE DEAD – Oct. 16 at 10 pm


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Wednesday, October 16 at 10:00 pm

 

Reconstruction of a stack of thirteen papyrus scrolls.
Reconstruction of papyrus scrolls.
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Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 AD transformed the papyri, fusing together the layers of the scrolls and making them impossible to read. Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say?