First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.
‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
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Technology reveals ancient text inside burnt Herculaneum scroll
Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them ...
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Using A.I., Researchers Peer Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...
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Bodleian Library hub houses 10 million books
More than 10 million books, maps and artefacts belonging to Oxford University's world-famous Bodleian Library are stored in a warehouse near Swindon. The unassuming building in South Marston ...
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Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years
A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...
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David Vaisey, head librarian who steered the cash-strapped Bodleian into the digital age
When Vaisey took the Bodleian’s top job in 1986, having risen through the ranks from lowly postgraduate archivist to Keeper of Western Manuscripts, the library was facing what seemed the ...
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Researchers Get a Peek Inside Another Herculaneum Scroll That Survived Vesuvius’s Eruption
Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...
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Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
But standing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, I can observe the moment when Franz Kafka realised the shape his final novel, The Castle — published posthumously as Das Schloss in 1926 — would ...
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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds several of the scrolls ... case and taken to Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire. Inside this huge machine, which is called a synchrotron ...