Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

A student, as part of a contest, used a machine-learning algorithm and CT scans to analyse on closed scrolls, buried by Mount Vesuvius in October AD 79. The breakthrough could unlock the contents of hundreds of never-before-seen writings.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We already know the language that’s not what they are saying, this is reading the inside the rolled up scroll that’s too fragile to unroll so we don’t know what was in there