ALBAWABA - A unique group of three researchers won $700,000 for using artificial intelligence (AI) to decode the contents of a scorched 2000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. In detail, the trio targeted the Herculaneum papyri, a set of 800 Greek scrolls that were involved in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, leading the ancient Roman town Pompeii to be buried under volcanic ashes. The logs of hardened ash, kept in ...