{"id":174298,"date":"2023-10-16T13:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ai-deciphers-ancient-scroll-buried-in-the-ashes-of-mount-vesuvius"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:24:32","slug":"ai-deciphers-ancient-scroll-buried-in-the-ashes-of-mount-vesuvius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ai-deciphers-ancient-scroll-buried-in-the-ashes-of-mount-vesuvius","title":{"rendered":"AI Deciphers Ancient Scroll Buried in The Ashes of Mount Vesuvius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-deciphers-ancient-scroll-buried-in-the-ashes-of-mount-vesuvius2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine for a scroll that has been buried under mounds of volcanic ash from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ancient-roman-citys-missing-bodies-were-vaporized-in-volcanic-blast\">Mount Vesuvius<\/a> for close to 2,000 years, the rolled-up papyrus excavated from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum is rather difficult to open, let alone read \u2013 but AI has found a way.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars from the University of Kentucky launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/scrollprize.org\/\">Vesuvius Challenge<\/a> in March, releasing thousands of X-ray images of charred, carbonized Herculaneum scrolls together with untrained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">artificial intelligence<\/a> software that could be used to interpret the scans.<\/p>\n<p>Now two students have claimed the first prizes to be awarded: Luke Farritor, a computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Youssef Nader, a biorobotics grad student at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might imagine for a scroll that has been buried under mounds of volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius for close to 2,000 years, the rolled-up papyrus excavated from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum is rather difficult to open, let alone read \u2013 but AI has found a way. Scholars from the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}