{"id":12977,"date":"2023-10-17T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2023-11-06T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:07:36","slug":"vesuvius-scroll-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/17\/vesuvius-scroll-decoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesuvius Scroll Decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A 21-Year-Old Just Solved a 2000-Year-Old Mystery In ‘World-Historical’ Breakthrough<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

21-year-old Luke Farritor became the first person in millennia to read the text on an ancient scroll using machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Becky Ferreira<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 21-year-old computer scientist named Luke Farritor just became the first person in nearly 2,000 years to read words from a papyrus scroll that was buried under more than 60 feet of volcanic ash after the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farritor used a machine learning program to pinpoint the Greek word for \u201cpurple\u201d in one of the hundreds of carbonized scrolls that were unearthed in Herculaneum, a town that was obliterated by the eruption along with its more famous neighbor, Pompeii.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scrolls were found in 1752 during excavations of an ancient villa in Herculaneum that may have belonged to Julius Caesar\u2019s father-in-law. Excavators at that time quickly realized that the singed and fragile works disintegrated when they were unrolled, and so left most of them bound in their original form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Vice A 21-Year-Old Just Solved a 2000-Year-Old Mystery In ‘World-Historical’ Breakthrough 21-year-old Luke Farritor became the first person in millennia to read the text on an ancient scroll using machine learning. By\u00a0Becky Ferreira A 21-year-old computer scientist named Luke Farritor just became the first person in nearly 2,000 years to read words from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}