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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30082419

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.