Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do ...
NPR's Scott Simon asks Prof. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky about deciphering tightly wound, charred scrolls from the 1st Century C.E. using X-rays and artificial intelligence. Sponsor ...
The Vesuvius Challenge announced that a team of students decoded the text of a 2,000-year-old volcanically preserved scroll. What does it say? Photo from EduceLab via the University of Kentucky How do ...