The Daily Telegraph24d
David Vaisey, head librarian who steered the cash-strapped Bodleian into the digital age
When Vaisey took the Bodleian’s top job in 1986, having risen through the ranks from lowly postgraduate archivist to Keeper of Western Manuscripts, the library was facing what seemed the ...
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...
Greek Reporter9d
New Herculaneum Scroll Unwrapped, Revealing Ancient Greek Philosophy
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...
BBC10d
First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
Bodleian Library The ancient scroll was burnt to a crisp by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius "We're confident we will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety, and it's the first ...
‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
Sky8d
Ancient scrolls near Pompeii were preserved but unreadable - are they now revealing their secrets?
Peter Toth, a curator at the Bodleian Library, said: "We need better images, and they are very positive and very, very confident that they can still improve the image quality and the legibility of ...
The Baltimore Sun9d
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
The library of what’s called the Villa of the ... the inside of one of the three scrolls held at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. University of Kentucky computer scientist Brent Seales ...
Irish Sun9d
Message on 2,000-year-old scroll burnt to crisp in Vesuvius eruption revealed for first time using incredible technique
The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds a number of the scrolls, but they have been untouched for decades - until nowCredit: Vesuvius Challenge The papyrus scroll hasn't actually been ...