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A closed carbonised papyrus scroll from Herculaneum being scanned. EduceLab/University of Kentucky

August 28, 2024

The Vesuvius Challenge is using AI to virtually unroll Pompeii’s ancient scrolls

Kilian Fleischer, University of Tübingen

Scrolls from Pompeii could now be read for the first time in 2,000 years.

Plato and his students at his school, where he is believed to have been buried. Wikimedia

May 3, 2024

Ancient scroll reveals new story of Plato’s death – here’s why you should be suspicious of it

Bert van den Berg, Leiden University

For the Ancient Greeks, the way a philosopher died was meant to reflect their lives and teachings.

The Vesuvius Challenge incentivizes technological development by inviting researchers to figure out how to ‘read’ ancient papyri excavated from volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. Columns of Greek text retrieved from a portion of a scroll. (Vesuvius Challenge)

March 12, 2024

Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them

C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba

However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.

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Bert van den Berg
Lecturer in Classical Languages and Culture, Leiden University
C. Michael Sampson
Associate Professor of Classics, University of Manitoba
Kilian Fleischer
Head of DFG-project/Lecturer in Classics, University of Tübingen

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