How AI Read a Herculaneum Scroll: Vesuvius Challenge
How AI Read a Herculaneum Scroll: Vesuvius Challenge Breakthrough
TL;DR
- Vesuvius Challenge read an unopened Herculaneum scroll — 2,000 Greek characters unseen since ancient times. - A convolutional neural network detected ancient ink ghosting inside carbonized papyrus using X-ray CT scans from Diamond Light Source. - Luke Farritor