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2,000-Year-Old Clay Rattle Scanned with CT Reveals the Secret Behind Its Ancient Sound
A small clay rattle more than 2,000 years old, preserved in the collections of the Tarnów Regional Museum in southern Poland, has revealed its hidden internal structure after being examined with computed tomography (CT). The non-invasive scan allowed researchers to look inside the fragile artifact without opening it, uncovering the mechanism responsible for the faint…
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AI Unlocks Secrets of Ancient Herculaneum Scroll in Groundbreaking Oxford Discovery
Artificial intelligence, often envisioned for futuristic applications, is now playing a transformative role in uncovering the mysteries of the ancient world. In a groundbreaking achievement, researchers from the University of Oxford have successfully used AI to help decipher a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll from Herculaneum — a Roman town buried under volcanic ash during the eruption…