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AI Virtually Unwraps Herculaneum Scroll, Revealing 2,000-Year-Old Author’s Identity
Unlocking Ancient Wisdom: AI Reveals Hidden Text in 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll [Image: A partially unrolled Herculaneum scroll, showing its charred and fragile state. Caption: The Herculaneum scrolls, preserved by volcanic ash for millennia, are too fragile to physically unroll.] The Herculaneum scrolls, buried by Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in AD 79, have long tantalized scholars. These […]
Scientists Uncover True Use of 2,000-Year-Old ‘Dial of Destiny’ That Inspired Indiana Jones
Mystery of the Ancient ‘Dial of Destiny’ Solved? Scientists Suggest Antikythera Mechanism Was a Toy (Image: Fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, the earliest known mechanical computing device.) The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old Greek artifact that inspired the fictional "Dial of Destiny" in the latest Indiana Jones film, has long puzzled scientists. Discovered in 1901 […]