Deciphering The Ancient Herculaneum Scrolls | Full Documentary | Secrets of the Dead | PBS

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Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 AD transformed the papyri, fusing together the layers of the scrolls and making them impossible to read. Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say?

The Herculaneum Scrolls | Secrets of the Dead

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