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Writer's pictureAndy McIlvain

Herculaneum Scrolls: A 20-Year Journey to Read the Unreadable



Herculaneum Scrolls: A 20-Year Journey to Read the Unreadable

"Brent Seales, computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, discusses his work to rescue ancient text, such as that buried deep within the carbonized scrolls of Herculaneum. BREAKTHROUGH: A major announcement on the two-decade journey to uncover ancient wisdom and read the Herculaneum scrolls will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12 via livestream: https://engr.uky.edu/live You can learn more about the Vesuvius Challenge, an on-going global competition to read the Herculaneum scrolls, here: https://scrollprize.org/" from video introduction




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