AI will let us read 'lost' ancient works in the library at Herculaneum for the first time

Reproduced under a CC BY 4.0 license. On 19 October 1752, a discovery was made 20 metres underneath the town of Resina, near Naples in Italy. Peasants digging wells in the area around Mount Vesuvius had struck marble statuary and mosaic pavements – and they also found lumps of carbon. Initially, they were tossed aside – the lumps weren't considered valuable or pretty, so were of no interest. But thankfully, someone noticed they were all about the same size and shape, and investigated further.