Charred Vesuvius Scroll Partially Deciphered, Winning Students $700K

[Newsbreaker]

Image generated on AI

A trio of young researchers has cracked open the past, reading rolled-up texts from ancient Roman scrolls that were turned to charcoal by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. This accomplishment was pulled off through the Vesuvius Challenge, an international competition where participants leveraged machine learning and computer vision to peer into the carbonized layers of history. The team has won a whopping US$700,000 for the seemingly impossible feat.

Read full article