Shocking Vesuvius Secrets - Genius AI Reveals Herculaneum
Автор: Unsealed Origins
Загружено: 2025-12-30
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79 AD. Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Herculaneum. A villa library—over 1,800 papyrus scrolls—turned to charcoal.
Discovered in 1752. Attempts to unroll them turned them to dust.
For 270 years, the scrolls remained unreadable. The only intact library from the classical world—lost.
2023 - The Vesuvius Challenge launched. $1 million prize to decipher the scrolls using AI.
Three students trained machine-learning algorithms on CT scans. They "virtually unwrapped" the scrolls without touching them.
February 2024. They won $700,000 for deciphering 2,000 characters—about 5% of one scroll.
The text: a previously unknown philosophical work, probably by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Discussing pleasure, music, food. "We do not believe things that are scarce to be more pleasant than those which are abundant."
The villa likely belonged to Julius Caesar's father-in-law. Researchers believe the main library was never found—thousands more scrolls could still be underground.
AI reads them 20 times faster than humans.
#herculaneum #vesuvius #ancientscrolls #AI #pompeii #romanhistory #archaeology #ancientphilosophy
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