AI helps read 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll PHerc 1667 as scientists fully unwrap it

Scientists have fully unwrapped Herculaneum scroll PHerc. 1667 using AI, reading 1.5 metres of ancient Greek text without touching it. Once deemed unreadable, the 2,000-year-old scroll—charred by Mount Vesuvius—reveals a lost Stoic…