“Finding the full title of a work inside a scroll that has been unread for two millennia is an astonishing achievement, and illustrates the huge potential for AI to transform arts and humanities scholarship, our understanding of the past, and breathes new life into ancient artefacts.”
A sealed Herculaneum scroll turns out to be Philodemus’s On Vices, read without opening it. Two teams found the title independently. Scholars disagree about which book of the work it is. It is the first title recovered from a sealed scroll.