The Herculaneum Scrolls

Streaming video - 2024

Making headlines around the world, Brent Seales and his team of computer scientists set out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 AD transformed the papyri, fusing together the layers of the scrolls and making them impossible to read. Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say?

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Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : PBS 2024.
2025.
Language
English
Other Authors
Adam Luria (film director), Jay O. Sanders (actor)
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A Kanopy streaming video
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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