AI Transformed 2,000-Year-Old ‘Chunks of Charcoal’ into Ancient Texts
How AI has transformed a charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum into 'a literary book from the ancient world'—and what it could mean moving forward.| ARTnews.com
How AI has transformed a charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum into 'a literary book from the ancient world'—and what it could mean moving forward.| ARTnews.com
The contents of this scroll have been unknown for the last 2,000 years, but are now known to be one part of an influential multi-volume work.| ARTnews.com
Francesca Aton is an associate digital editor at ARTnews and Art in America. She joined Art Media in 2017 as an editorial intern, after earning a dual Bachelor of Arts in art history and visual arts from Fordham University. Aton served previously as exhibitions associate at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit. She has spoken at the French Embassy in New York on the cultural impacts of bilingualism, and was a site assistant for the Apolline Project in southern Italy, unearthing, ide...| ARTnews.com
