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for close to 2,000 years, the rolled-up papyrus excavated from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum is rather difficult to open, let alone read – but AI has found a way.Now two students have claimed the first prizes to be awarded: Luke Farritor, a computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Youssef Nader, a biorobotics grad student at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.
Both Farritor and Nader independently identified the word"πορϕυρας" , meaning"purple" – making it the first full word to be decoded from the scripts using the, purple was a significant color, often representing wealth and status. It's thought that the word could refer to robes or to rank, though further analysis of the scrolls will be needed to know for sure.
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