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AI Read a Scroll Burned Shut 2,000 Years Ago 📜 #Shorts #LessonToday
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- In 79 AD the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried a Roman villa at Herculaneum and carbonized its library of papyrus scrolls.
- Found in the 18th century, the scrolls became lumps of charcoal that crumble if you try to open them.
- In 2023 the Vesuvius Challenge released high-resolution X-ray CT scans of the still-rolled scrolls (made at the Diamond Light Source near Oxford) and a global community used…
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