Herculaneum Scrolls breaks: Scientists digitally “take” a 2.000-year-old scroll burned from the Vesuvius Mountain

London – IN Herculaneum scrolls They remained one of the many torturous mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2000 years. Lava burned against the Vesuvius hill at the age of 79, the rolling of a valid papyrus were discovered in the castle in Herculaneum-Djedno Roman city near Pompey-Sedin of the 18th century. Both cities were decimated by the eruption of Vesuvija, and most coils were so bad coal that it was impossible to open them.

Over the next two and a half centuries, attempted to reject some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything, from rose and live to plant gas and paper juice, according to New Yorker.

The few who could open up were philosophical texts written on ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. In recent times, researchers managed to decipher Some choose words using artificial intelligence, X -ray and CT scan to distinguish the papyrus ink on which it is printed.

The mystery is still breaking, and a major breakthrough has been announced on Wednesday. Researchers say they have now managed to digital off and start reading one of the ancient scrolls. Moving in question, known as Pherc. 172, one of the three stored on the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, England.

A team involved in Vesuv Challenge, a competition that offers a reward award for anyone who can help unlock sensitive scrolls, says he practically rested the paperwork to discover the columns of the text that Oxford Scholars have already started working on deciphering.

“This scroll contains more reciprocal text than we have ever seen in the scanned Herculaneum scroll,” said Brent Sealles, one of the co -founders of the challenge.

“We are convinced that we will be fully able to read the whole scroll, and this is the first time we could really say it with great confidence,” said project manager Stephen Parsons, he told the CBS News BBC news partner network. “We can now work to appear more clearly. We will move from a handful of words to really significant passages.”

The breakthrough came when the team brought a blocked scroll to the Bodleian libraries into a research plant for diamond light in nearby Oxfordshire, where technicians used a massive machine called a synchronous to create a powerful X -ray that could peek into a fragile relic without damage.

“It can see things on a scale of several thousand millimeters,” said Adrian Mancuso, director of the physical science of the object, for the BBC. “We need to elaborate which layer is different from the next layer so we can digitally break that.”

Last year Vesuvius Challenge announced That the three young students won their $ 700,000 award for the use of AI to read about 5% of another coil to researchers, whose theme was Greek Epicurean philosophy.

It is assumed that the scroll that the team in the Bodleian libraries ran on the same topic.

“I simply love that connection with the one who has collected them, who wrote them, who overturned these scrolls and put it on the shelves,” Nicole Gilroy, head of book preservation at the Bodleian Library, told the BBC. “There is a real human aspect that I just think is really precious.”