AI helps scientists decipher papyrus scroll burnt in Vesuvius eruption

The scroll was first discovered in the 1750s but was too fragile to open. Using AI, scholars deciphered the full text and ...
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Excavators at Pompeii opened four rooms and frescoes sealed since Vesuvius erupted in AD 79

Archaeologists working at the Pompeii Archaeological Park have opened four rooms containing frescoes that remained sealed ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Have Deciphered the Surviving Fragments of a 2,000-Year-Old Philosophical Treatise Frozen in Time by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...
BBC

Pompeii: Portents of Disaster

The people of Pompeii were quite unprepared for the eruption of Vesuvius - getting on with their busy lives, in total ignorance of what was to come. The signs of impending disaster, though, were there ...