AI Has Helped Read The First Word Deciphered From Ancient Scrolls Carbonized By Mt. Vesuvius

The scrolls, intact but carbonized and impossible to unroll, came from a library in Herculaneum destroyed by the 79 AD eruption that both wiped out and preserved Pompeii. Thousands of 3D X-ray images were released, and computer scientists took up what’s called the Vesuvius Challenge to decipher them. – The Guardian