Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls (with Brent Seales) @toldinstonefootnotes
Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls (with Brent Seales) @toldinstonefootnotes
Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Dr. Brent Seales and I discuss the fascinating challenge of "virtually unwrapping" the Herculaneum Papyri.

0:00 Beginnings
3:08 The power of X-rays
4:03 The Herculaneum Scrolls
7:08 Scanning the scrolls
8:45 The En-Gedi Scroll
10:10 Papyrus and ink
12:21 Enter the particle accelerator
14:21 Machine learning 101
16:42 Fragments are the key
18:33 The Vesuvius Challenge
21:40 The other library
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Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls (with Brent Seales)

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