A computer science student has discovered the first decipherable word in unopened scrolls from Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Almost 2000 years after they were buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, scrolls from ahave begun to reveal their secrets. The tightly wrapped papyrus scrolls were charred in the disaster – which also destroyed the nearby town of Pompeii – but by studying 3D X-ray scans of the scrolls, it has now been possible to decipher a word on one of them: “porphyras” – meaning “purple”., a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
provided an even clearer picture of the scroll segment and is already yielding new clear images of other scroll segments. McOsker described Nader’s first-word snapshot as “even more impressive” than Farritor’s.The first-word discovery builds on the work of previous Vesuvius Challenge contributors who designed computational tools for mapping out segments of scroll.
In the past, papyrologists could only study the Herculaneum scrolls by physically unrolling them – a process that inevitably damaged the ancient papyri that had been carbonised by the heat of the volcanic debris that buried them, says McOsker. And even once researchers started using 3D imaging and computational techniques to digitally reveal the hidden contents of the scrolls, “attempts to read the still rolled-up papyri were mirages,” he says.
The latest breakthrough in deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls may pave the way for someone to claim the Vesuvius Challenge’s“I’m confident that Luke, Youssef, and the other competitors can solve a whole roll,” says McOsker. “Up until now, all the unrolled papyri that we study are missing their beginnings and are in bad condition, so the prospect of a reading a complete text, form beginning to end, is really quite something.
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