2,000-year-old scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius eruption finally deciphered with help from AI

Artificial intelligence has helped archaeologists decipher substantial new text from two ancient Herculaneum scrolls—documents preserved when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly two thousand years ago. According to Live Science, the newly deciphered passages may include a previously unknown work by a Stoic philosopher. The breakthrough shows how machine learning can recover text from heavily charred documents that were otherwise illegible for centuries, opening new windows into the ancient world.

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