To try to read scrolls from Herculaneum that had been chard in the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. My professor, Ross Scaife, of the Classics department, is the one who mentioned it. He had been working with people from Computer Science to develop a way to read them using technology. Unfortunately, he died a few years ago, of cancer, I believe, but this would have made him very happy, I think.
Breakthrough in Vesuvius Challenge as AI reads 2,000-year-old burned scroll at UK
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