{"id":175419,"date":"2023-11-05T07:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/2000-year-old-charred-manuscripts-reveal-their-secrets"},"modified":"2023-11-05T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T13:27:20","slug":"2000-year-old-charred-manuscripts-reveal-their-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/2000-year-old-charred-manuscripts-reveal-their-secrets","title":{"rendered":"2000-Year Old Charred Manuscripts Reveal Their Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2000-year-old-charred-manuscripts-reveal-their-secrets3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery eruption of a volcano. The task would seem virtually impossible, and the information in the scroll lost forever. Right?|<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, new developments are changing that. Modern scanning techniques and machine learning tools have <a href=\"https:\/\/uknow.uky.edu\/research\/breakthrough-discovery-made-within-2000-year-old-herculaneum-scrolls\" target=\"_blank\">made it possible to read fragments of the heavily-damaged Herculaneum scrolls<\/a>. Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be salvaged, giving us a new insight into the ancient past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine trying to read a 2000-year old scroll from an ancient civilization. Now imagine that scroll is rolled up, and in a delicate, charred, carbonized form, having been engulfed by the fiery eruption of a volcano. The task would seem virtually impossible, and the information in the scroll lost forever. Right?| As it turns out, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175419","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}