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Sarah Miansoni

AI helps scientists decipher papyrus scroll burnt in Vesuvius eruption

An ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has finally revealed its secrets.

Scientists were able to decipher the fragile scroll without unrolling it. Instead, they used artificial intelligence to uncover what ended up being, rather ironically, a philosophical treatise on ethics, human nature and moral progress.

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