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A Roman scroll, partially preserved when it was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, has been decoded using artificial intelligence.

The feat was achieved by three contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition launched in March 2023 in which people around the world raced to read the ancient scrolls.

Nat Friedman is one of the challenge鈥檚 organisers. He told Newsday that the scrolls were discovered in the 1750s by Italian farmers digging a well but 鈥渨hat they recovered was not intact鈥�they were ashen, carbonised lumps of coal basically. They were so fragile and delicate that they couldn鈥檛 be opened鈥�.

However, they have now deciphered what was written. He added: 鈥淭he scroll discusses music, food and eating capers and there鈥檚 this whole discussion about whether it鈥檚 better to eat whatever you like or maybe deprive yourself鈥�because then you鈥檒l enjoy the food a little bit more.鈥�

(Picture: Shows a box with the remains of Herculaneum papyri, Roman-era scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. Credit: Stephane De Sakutin / AFP via Getty Images.)

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