Scientists use artificial intelligence to scan a charred Roman papyrus, from which we can learn more about Alexander the Great and his generals.<\/p>\n
Charred scrolls of papyrus have been preserved in the library in the so-called The Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, a city that was one of the few Roman cities that were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.<\/p>\n
According to the researchers, thanks to a self-learning computer and computed tomography, the papyrus was slowly scanned and searched for ink residue. The computer then processes the collected data into content and creates virtual images in 4K.<\/p>\n
So far, the computer has read from the ancient text, among others: information about Alexander the Great and his successors. We can read, among others, that Alexander the Great is “a good king who ruled over a gigantic empire as in Homer’s Iliad”.<\/p>\n
Little information has been obtained so far, including the names of Alexander’s chieftains: Seleucus, who ruled Babylon and founded the city of Seleucia, and Cassander, who took over after Alexander’s death in 323 BCE governments in Greece.<\/p>\n
We do not know who could have been the author of the papyrus. Researchers speculate that it could be a copy of the forgotten diary of Eumenos, Alexander’s secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":121522,"template":"","class_list":["post-121529","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/121529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/121529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}