Volcano-Skord Roman Scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years

An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time as it was done in the volcanic eruptions of Mount Vesuvius two millennium ago for Artificial Intelligence and a high-power X-ray feature.

The Papirus scroll was one of the 1800s rescued from a room in an ornate villa in the Roman city of Harkulanam during the 1750s, now the Italian city of Erkolano. All of them were carbonated by the heat of the volcano debris that buried them.

Initially, the locals inadvertently burnt the scroll in the form of firewood, but once it was discovered that they were contained, they survived. Since approximately 200, the mechanical devices have been opened and read by mechanical equipment, which gradually receive tickle and award.

Three of these scrolls are placed in the Bodalian Library of the University of Oxford, which was gifted by King George III in 1804. The king had traded a contingent of Kangaroos to King Ferdinand IV of Naples instead of scroll. (The destiny king was creating a wide garden and a collection of animals for his lover.)

One of these three scrolls, known as Pherc. 172, now has been imaged and analyzed using machine learning algorithms. It was scanned in a diamond light source in Oxfordshire, a house for a high-power X-ray machine, known as a synchrotron, and the resulting data was made available to the participants. Vesuvius Challenge – A competition with $ 700,000 grand award to explain the text from scroll.

This method is much better than trying to open scroll mechanically, says Peter TothA curator in the Bodalian Library. “The only problem, or risk, is that imaging is so special that it cannot be done here, which means scroll had to leave the premises. And we were very nervous about this, ”he says.

Researchers have revealed many pillars of the text so far, each column has about 26 lines. Educationists are now expected to read the entire scroll, but already ancient Greek word ιατρο, meaning “hatred”. Toth suspects that it will somehow belong to the philosopher epicMany of the other scroll found on the same site are.

Pherc. The 172 Bodalian library had only one of the three scrolls that were stable enough to travel, and then only in a particularly 3D-crushed case inside another padded box. “Hope is that technology (in future) can improve so much that objects do not need to travel anywhere, but technology can come to us,” says Toth.