University of Nebraska undergraduate student Luke Farritor made a scientific breakthrough after using AI to decipher the first word written on a papyrus scroll that is more than 2,000 years old.

Archeologists recently recovered a nearly 16-meter (52-foot) long ancient Egyptian papyrus writing from a tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. The writing — which is more than 2,000 years old — was found inside a ...

Papyrus—made from the stems of the plant Cyperus papyrus—was used in the ancient world for baskets, sails, and boat-making in addition to being a popular writing material.

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries.

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Ancient papyrus is deciphered after 1,900 YEARS: Mysterious scroll is the 'best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus' READ MORE: Experts offer $1 MILLION for ...

For instance, the ancient Egyptian document called the Brooklyn Papyrus, dating back to around 660-330 B.C. but likely a copy of a much older document, lists different kinds of snake known at the ...

AI helps decipher first text of “unreadable” ancient Herculaneum scroll Computer science student Luke Farritor won $40,000 from the Vesuvius Challenge.

The resulting powerful beams are then used for various scientific purposes—such as scanning ancient texts. Of the four originally scanned scrolls, however, Banana Boy is the only one in which ...