Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI

When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, "the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world..."
"But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts
crumbled to dust."
Every generation that followed faced the same dilemma: They could wait for
technology to advance, abandoning hope of reading the ancient texts
in their own lifetime. Or they could try to op