{"id":239406,"date":"2026-07-01T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:00:21","slug":"in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"In A First, AI Decodes Entire Scroll Scorched In Mt. Vesuvius Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lesliekatz\/2026\/07\/01\/in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption\/\">In A First, AI Decodes Entire Scroll Scorched In Mt. Vesuvius Eruption<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lesliekatz\/2026\/07\/01\/in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lesliekatz\/2026\/07\/01\/in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 17:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists have virtually unrolled the entire surviving portion of scroll PHerc. 1667 using high-resolution X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence, marking a milestone for the Vesuvius Challenge.<\/li>\n<li>This scroll, discovered among the Herculaneum Papyri, offers a unique philosophical treatise on ethics, arts, and human nature and is among the oldest discovered from the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE.<\/li>\n<li>The virtually unwrapped text consists of nearly 5 feet of continuous Greek writing divided into 20 columns, which provides new insights into the thoughts and lifestyles of ancient Romans\/Greeks.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers believe PHerc. 1667 reflects Stoic thought although it belongs to an Epicurean collection, indicating a blend of ideas from the time.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge of unwrapping an entire scroll involved deciphering compressed sections with faint ink and required advanced algorithms and improved scanning quality.<\/li>\n<li>This breakthrough could enable researchers to access and analyze an extensive range of previously inaccessible texts from scrolls preserved in the Vesuvius eruption, promising a deeper understanding of ancient knowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A First, AI Decodes Entire Scroll Scorched In Mt. Vesuvius Eruption https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lesliekatz\/2026\/07\/01\/in-a-first-ai-decodes-entire-scroll-scorched-in-mt-vesuvius-eruption\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a45869a33c6b3656ed847db\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-239406","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\/239406"}],"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=239406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239408,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239406\/revisions\/239408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}