First see after 2,000 years within Burnt Scroll

Herculaneum The Roman falling scroll has been digitally “dissolved” by giving the first look in 2,000 years.

The document that seems to be a coal pile, as a result of the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvio, is 79ad and brittle to be physically open.

Now, scientists combine the image of the X-ray and artificial intelligence that almost dissolved, revealing rows and columns.

More work is needed to completely read the scroll to decipher its content, but the team behind the project said the results are very promising.

“We are sure that we will be able to read the whole scroll whole, and we meant that we really have great confidence,” Stephen Parsons said, projects for Vesuvius Challenge. International competition that tries to unlock Herculaneaum scrolls.

Some letters are already visible in the ancient text and the team believes that it is a work of philosophy.

Hundreds of shits were found in Herculaneum, which was buried under the meter of volcanic ashes of his neighbor.

In the past, some documents consisting of a thick paper material called Papyrus were open, but they split.

The Oxford University Bodle Library has many scrolls. They thought it was impossible to read, they remained unchanged for decades.

“We are never convinced that a technique would be safe or effective to obtain scroll information,” Nicole Gilroyk, the book conservation heads.

But the promises of a hi-tech solution acquired a prized storage to the team.

It was placed in a particular case in Oxfordshire and took it to the Diamond Light Source.

Within this giant machine, it is called synchronchron, the electrons accelerate with the speed of light to produce a strong X-ray that can be damaged without damage.

“He can see things on a millimeter of a millimeter,” said Adrian Mancuso, Director of Physical Sciences of Diamond.

The scan is used to create a 3D reconstruction, then the interior layers of the scroll – contains about 10 m Papyrus – should be identified.

“What a different layer is different from the next layer so that they do not digitally,” Dr. Mancuso said.

This artificial intelligence is used to detect ink. It’s easier than do – Papyrus and ink are made of carbon and almost separated from each other.

So Aik hunts the smallest signs that could be ink, then this ink is digitally painted, carrying the letters to the light.

“We can say full run full of text,” said Stephen Parsons.

“Now we can work clearly when we show it. We will go from the competent word to important passages.”

Last year, a group of Vesuvius Challenge managed to read another 5% of another Hervalean Scroll.

Its topic was the Greek Epicurea philosophy that teaches that the requirement can be found through the pleasure of everyday things.

The scrolling of the Bodley will be on top of the topic, but the Vesuvius Group calls for more human and computer intelligence to see if it is.

For Nicole Gilroy, the work provides a link to the past.

“I love the connection with the one who has collected them, who wrote, he scrolls them, and put it on the shelves. I think it’s really precious,” he said.

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