On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.

I’ve heard of similar tech being used to decipher text from the dead sea scrolls, it’s awesome to see these advances happening.

  • breecher@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Oh, they certainly will decipher more. It is an ongoing project, and they have already deciphered and published several previously lost titles by Philodemus.