Inside the high tech quest to decode the lost scrolls of Herculaneum | Casey Handmer
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“These scrolls were buried by superheated mud that crushed them and carbonized them and buried them, and then 1,700 years later, they were dug up and mistrea...
  • @QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    Pretty cool use of MRIs and AI (machine learning to unroll them and read the letters).

    Similar (or the same?) tech has been used to read the Dead Sea Scrolls.