Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls
The Vesuvius Challenge is an ongoing project that combines "digital unwrapping" with crowdsourced machine learning to decipher the so-called Herculaneum scrolls, badly charred 2,000-year-old papyri too fragile to be physically unrolled. The effort just got an additional boost. A team of researchers created their own contemporary model papyrus scrolls - charring them just like the originals - to validate a screening method to determine which of the Herculaneum scrolls were written in lead-based i
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