CG and AI could help recover lost works of Greek and Latin literature

Advances in artificial intelligence and GPU computing are being used together with modern scanning and imaging methods to reveal the content of thousands of scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. Known as the Herculaneum papyri, the scrolls belong to the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety, and contain lost works from Greek (and possibly Latin) literature. The scrolls cannot be unwrapped through traditional methods. Interestingly enough, the carbonization preserved the rolls, as they would have probably not survived to this day otherwise. More on Wikipedia and NVidia’s website.