With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an ancient papyrus scroll destroyed in the library of Pompeii has been deciphered, offering Roman scholars the opportunity to rediscover knowledge from that era. The scroll, carbonized by the heat and gases of the Vesuvius Eruption, was discovered in 1752 and remained in museum storerooms. Silicon Valley figures created the Vesuvius Challenge, offering up to $1 million in cash prizes for engineers who could program AI to read the carbonized papyrus. One contestant became the first person in two millennia to see an entire word from within an unopened scroll using AI.

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