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AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption

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Scroll is one of hundreds found in the library of a Roman mansion in Herculaneum , a town on the west coast of Italy that was wiped out when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.

Excavations at the luxury villa, thought to be owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law, recovered a vast collection of scrolls.

One word written in Ancient Greek , meaning disgust, appears twice within a few columns of text.

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85

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73

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formal

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English

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long-living

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