Medicine & TechnologyExperts have used artificial intelligence to accelerate the decoding of the manuscript carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Read the article to learn more details on how to win the prize by deciphering the scrolls.
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed several Roman towns including Pompeii and Herculaneum. With Herculaneum's destruction, hundreds of writings from the time were buried for what some believed could be all of eternity. However, scientists have now succeeded in reading parts of an ancient scroll buried by the eruption.