Artificial intelligence has helped scientists read words from a scroll sealed for 2,000 years. This scroll, carbonized into a lump of charcoal by volcanic heat, holds secrets from the Roman town of Herculaneum before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The Technical Process The breakthrough happened in three key steps. First, researchers at Diamond Light Source in Oxford used a particle accelerator called a synchrotron. “It can see things on the scale of a few thousandths of a millimetre,” explains Adrian Mancuso, director of physical sciences at Diamond. This machine fired high-powered X-rays through the scroll without damaging it. Next … Continue reading AI Deciphers 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll