{"id":14329,"date":"2024-05-03T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/how-scholars-armed-with-cutting-edge-technology-are-unfurling-secrets-of-ancient-scrolls\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:37:20","slug":"how-scholars-armed-with-cutting-edge-technology-are-unfurling-secrets-of-ancient-scrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/how-scholars-armed-with-cutting-edge-technology-are-unfurling-secrets-of-ancient-scrolls\/","title":{"rendered":"How scholars armed with cutting-edge technology are unfurling secrets of ancient scrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to uncover lives of ancient philosophers<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 years after Plato died, the towering figure of Classical antiquity and founder of the Academy, regarded by many as the first university in the west, can still make front page news.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers this week claimed to have found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/29\/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site\">the final resting place<\/a> of the Greek philosopher, a patch in the garden of his Athens Academy, after scanning an ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the library of a Herculaneum villa that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/article\/2024\/may\/03\/how-scholars-armed-with-cutting-edge-technology-are-unfurling-secrets-of-ancient-scrolls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b9be5721f6c5437a095234baa1b880fd97fe2793\/687_0_7470_4484\/master\/7470.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c7828b513168c33044a879a50c36c20d\" title=\"How scholars armed with cutting-edge technology are unfurling secrets of ancient scrolls\" \/>Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to uncover lives of ancient philosophers<br \/>\nMore than 2,000 years after Plato died, the towering figure of Classical antiquity and founder of the Academy, regarded by many as the first university in the west, can still make front page news.<br \/>\nResearchers this week claimed to have found the final resting place of the Greek philosopher, a patch in the garden of his Athens Academy, after scanning an ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the library of a Herculaneum villa that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers and Silicon Valley are using tools powered by AI to uncover lives of ancient philosophers More than 2,000 years after Plato died, the towering figure of Classical antiquity and founder of the Academy, regarded by many as the first university in the west, can still make front page news. Researchers this week claimed to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/how-scholars-armed-with-cutting-edge-technology-are-unfurling-secrets-of-ancient-scrolls\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How scholars armed with cutting-edge technology are unfurling secrets of ancient scrolls<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}