London – the Herculaneum manuscripts It has been one of the many secrets of the ancient world for nearly 2000 years. It was burned to a lava from Jabal Vizovius in the year 79 AD, discovered from the papyri praised in a palace in Hercules-an ancient Romanian town near Pompee-in the middle of the eighteenth century. Both cities were eliminated due to the Vizovius eruption, and most of the manuscripts were so charred that it was impossible to open them.
Throughout the next two centuries, attempts were made to cancel some hundreds of manuscripts using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to what he said New Yorker.
The few can be opened are philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the manuscripts were severely damaged, they were considered unpopular. Recently, researchers I managed to decode Some specific words using artificial intelligence, x -rays and computerized tomography to distinguish ink from the papyrus on which it is printed.
Paper manuscripts in Villa Hercules in the 1950s were badly charred by the explosion of Mount Vizovius in 79 AD. Since their discovery in the eighteenth century, researchers have tried many techniques to separate charred and sensitive texts. / Credit: E. brun
The ambiguity is still collapsing, and on Wednesday, a major penetration was announced. The researchers say they are now able to separate digitally and start reading one of the old coils. The stakeholder, known as PHERC. 172, is one of three stored in Bodlian libraries at Oxford University in England.
A team involved in the Vesuvius challenge, a prize money competition for any person who can help open sensitive wraps, says it has already dismantled papyrus to detect columns from the text that Oxford scientists have already started at work.
“This pass contains a more recovered text than we saw in passing a light -woven murceolanium,” said Brent Sells, one of the founders who participated in the challenge.
“We are confident that we will be able to read the entire passing entire, and this is the first time that we are really able to say this with high confidence.” news. “Now we can work to make it appear more clearly. We will move from a few words to really large clips.”
This penetration came when the team brought in Bodleian libraries the black scroll to the research source of the sources of the diamond source in the nearby Oxfordshere, where the technicians used a huge machine called Synchrotron to create a strong X -ray beam that was able to look at the britch. Remains without destroying them.
“You can see things on a few thousand millimeters,” Adrian Mankoso, Director of Physical Sciences at the facility told BBC. “We have to know the layer that differs from the next layer so that we can cancel it digitally.”
Last year, Vesuvius Challenge Declare Three young students won the Grand Grand Award for $ 700,000 to use artificial intelligence to help researchers read about 5 % of the other passing, and was the subject of Greek philosophy.
The scrolling team is supposed to be in Bodleian’s libraries recently on the same topic.
“I just love this relationship with those who gathered them, anyone who wrote them, who wrapped those rolls and put them on the shelves,” Nicole Gilroy, head of preserving books in Bodlian libraries, told the BBC. “There is a real human side to think it is really precious.”
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