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2,000-year-old scroll preserved by a volcano is finally readable. What does it say?

How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do you read the unreadable? That was the paradox posed by a volcanically ...
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AI makes breakthrough reading 2,000-year-old scroll burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — After 21 years, cutting-edge technology pioneered at the University of Kentucky is being used to read a 2,000-year-old scroll. The Herculaneum scrolls were burned and buried in ...
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Old Testament scrolls on view in California

The scroll was discovered in the Qumran Cave in the Judean Desert in 1952, about 6 miles outside of Jericho, in the West Bank. It contains two passages from Deuteronomy, 8:5-10 and 5:1–6:1. These ...
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2,000-year-old scroll preserved by a volcano is finally readable. What does it say?

The Vesuvius Challenge announced that a team of students decoded the text of a 2,000-year-old volcanically preserved scroll. What does it say? Photo from EduceLab via the University of Kentucky How do ...
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AI makes breakthrough reading 2,000-year-old scroll burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDKY) — After 21 years, ...