{"id":236507,"date":"2026-06-24T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-helps-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-to-crisp-during-vesuvius-eruption-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:45:35","slug":"ai-helps-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-to-crisp-during-vesuvius-eruption-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/ai-helps-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-to-crisp-during-vesuvius-eruption-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/24\/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption\">AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/24\/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/24\/ai-read-papyrus-scroll-burnt-vesuvius-eruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 11:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A damaged ancient scroll from the library of a Roman villa in Herculaneum, burnt by the Vesuvius eruption, has been virtually unwrapped and read using artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers uncovered 20 columns of previously hidden stoic philosophy text dating to the second or late-third century BC.<\/li>\n<li>The scroll, named PHerc 1667, is part of a collection of hundreds from Herculaneum, but its title and authorship remain unknown.<\/li>\n<li>The text suggests it\u2019s a stoic treatise, possibly authored by Chrysippus, discussing concepts like impulse and practical wisdom.<\/li>\n<li>The virtual unwrapping and reading were part of the Vesuvius Challenge, a 2023 global contest using AI to read carbonised scrolls from the site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption | AI (artificial intelligence)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/749d850b8586ad4f3f041fa8e09bfb555be5f1aa\/101_0_4373_3498\/master\/4373.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=0b82e900e0b123e091799cc1ca5c75dd","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-236507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236509,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236507\/revisions\/236509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}