AI Deciphers the Text of 2000-Year-Old Burnt Roman Scrolls

The Herculaneum papyri are approximately 1,800 papyrus scrolls unearthed in Italy in the 18th century.

They were burnt by Mount Vesuvius's eruption in 79 AD and were long assumed to be illegible.

However, a 21-year-old computer science student has won a global competition to use a machine learning algorithm to interpret the first writing from the scrolls.

Luke Farritor, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln student, created the algorithm that recognised Greek characters on numerous lines of the rolled-up paper.

He trained his neural network to highlight the ink using the tiny, small-scale changes in surface textures.

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