AI just helped us find out where Plato is buried
by ZDNet
ZDNet— Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating new discoveries across industries, from video production to medicine -- and now, it's expanding what we know about antiquity. On Tuesday, researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy announced that they have successfully used AI to decipher a papyrus scroll found in Herculaneum, a town near Pompeii that was also destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The scroll is one of 1,800 scrolls preserved in the Villa of the Papyri -- once owned by...
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Daily Mail—'Plato is just the start': Ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius could also reveal secrets about Socrates, scientist claims. Scientists are using clever scanning techniques to identify the Greek text written within the ancient Herculaneum scrolls in Naples - without having to unroll the fragile 'papyrus' pages.