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Scholars are regulating an ancient scroll that was one of the hundreds with a crisp in AD 79 during the explosion of Mount Vesuvis.
The artifacts, which are placed in the Budleen Library of Oxford University in the UK, are the fifth -sized Herculenium Scroll, practically uncomfortable. Vesuvis challengeA competitiveness that is designed to accelerate the decision -making of the tumor Which creates an unprecedented cache of information about ancient Rome and Greece.
To collect the script and increase the ink using artificial intelligence and other computer -based techniques, the Vesuvis Challenge team has successfully developed the first images of the text within the scrolling, known as the Perc. 172 The library group said On Wednesday, it has begun to translate the text columns.
The Budleen Libraries said that one of the first words to translate was ancient Greek – which means “invasive”, which appears twice in a few columns of the text.
“This is an incredible moment in history because librarians, computer scientists and classical scholars are cooperating to see the Unseen,” said Richard Oundan. Bodley’s Librarian And in a statement, director of Helen Hamilin University libraries.
“The amazing development made with imaging and AI has been enabled us to see scrubs that have not been read for about 2,000 2,000 years.”
If a researcher tries to torn down them by hand, any script is tried to destroy.
Brent Sales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and Vesuvis Challenge, said that to date, Oxford Scroll, scanned by Herculenium Scroll, said that the chemical composition of ink is more clearly clear. In the X -ray scan.
Researchers believe that ink may contain ingredients like lead, but further testing will need to be identified to identify the exact directive, which has made the ink far more capable of other scrolls that have been part of the Vesuvis challenge. – .
Sales said in a statement, “Despite these interesting results, there is a lot of work to improve our software methods so that we can read its entire and other Herculeine sciences.”
Sales told CNN last year that the key challenge is to flatter the documents and distinguish black ink from carbonized papaya to enable Greek and Latin scripts to be read.
He said that the machine learning technique is not declaring the text, but is increasing the ability to read the ink used to write the script. The library system said that the copy and translation of the text would depend on human scholars, including people from Oxford University.
Researchers are improving the photos of this book, in the hopes that it will improve the explanation of the text lines and perhaps the inner part of the carbonized scroll, where the title of work can be saved.
