Entire passages dedicated to music, food and the pleasures of life have been deciphered for the first time from one of the Herculaneum papyri. The result, which marks a turning point in the study of the classical world, was obtained thanks to artificial intelligence.
Three young researchers, Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor and Julian Schilliger, winners of the 700 thousand dollar prize offered by Vesuvius Challenge international competition. The initiative was launched just ten months ago by Brent Seales, a computer science professor at the University of Kentucky.