With Artificial Intelligence they recover texts charred by the eruption of Vesuvius. A system recognized patterns in the remains of ink.
With this information, Hellenists were able to read for the first time in two thousand years the ancient scrolls. There are still more than 800 charred scrolls to be recovered from the Herculaneum library, which is believed to have been located on property belonging to Julius Caesar's father-in-law and which was covered in volcanic mud and hot gases when Mount Vesvius exploded.