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BBC News
05-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Batters shine between Warwickshire & Sussex
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day two)Sussex 528: Simpson 181*, Clark 140; Bamber 4-105Warwickshire 223-3: Yates 113*; Seales 2-66Warwickshire (2 pts) trail Sussex (5 pts) by 305 runsMatch scorecard Bowlers continue to suffer in the Birmingham sunshine as an opening-round runfest unfolds between Warwickshire and Sussex in the County Championship Division One at have returned to the top tier in style by amassing 528 all out after captain John Simpson added a superb unbeaten 181 to Tom Clark's opening day century. Warwickshire's injury-hit attack, led by debutants Ethan Bamber (4-105) and Tazeem Ali (3-103), plugged away nobly but found the going tough in good batting hopes of turning that strong total into a victory were then held up by the home batters who responded with 223-3. Rob Yates closed the second day on 113 after captain Alex Davies launched the reply with an aggressive pitches in recent years have tended to flatten out as matches lengthen, so it is difficult to see either side forcing a victory. Both would probably be happy enough with a solid draw from their resumed on the second day on 386-5 and were given early impetus by Jack Carson's punchy 28 before he lifted Ed Barnard to deep square leg in pursuit of his fourth boundary of the over. Fynn Hudson-Prentice was soon lbw to Bamber but the implacable Simpson was joined by Danny Lamb in a stand of 85 in 25 and Ollie Robinson fell lbw to successive balls from Tazeem and Simpson's hopes of challenging his career best 205 ended when Jayden Seales scooped Michael Booth to opening batters Davies and Yates enjoyed their moments of good fortunes against the new ball attack of Robinson and Seales but batted positively and the score advanced briskly as soon as the ball softened. Davies hit 11 fours on his way to a 48-ball half-century as his side eased to 112 without loss from 21 overs at reached that point without taking risks which made Davies' departure, slashing the third ball of the evening session, a wide, short offering from Seales, to third man all the more strange. Hamza Shaikh (23) helped the steady Yates to add 56 in 14 overs but was undone by a lovely ball from Carson. Having seen a flighted delivery driven for four earlier in the over, the off-spinner looped up another which turned sharply to bowl the batter through a left Warwickshire, needing 379 to avoid the follow on, 172-2 with 17 overs left in the day. Yates chugged on to a 132-ball hundred but the departure of Sam Hain, who edged Seales to slip with 17 balls left in the day, sent Sussex off the field with a spring in their step and feeling that a strong morning tomorrow could keep the door open to them returning to Division One with a very impressive Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.
CNN
06-02-2025
- Science
- CNN
‘Disgust' among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition designed to accelerate the deciphering of the scrolls that form an unprecedented cache of information about ancient Rome and Greece. Using artificial intelligence and other computer-based techniques to piece together the scroll and enhance the ink, the Vesuvius Challenge team has successfully generated the first images of text inside the scroll, known as PHerc. 172. The library group said Wednesday that it has begun to interpret the columns of text. One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning 'disgust,' which appears twice within a few columns of text, the Bodleian Libraries said. 'It's an incredible moment in history as librarians, computer scientists and scholars of the classical period are collaborating to see the unseen,' said Richard Ovenden, Bodley's librarian and Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries, in a statement. 'The astonishing strides forward made with imaging and AI are enabling us to look inside scrolls that have not been read for almost 2,000 years.' Deciphering ancient scrolls with AI The scrolls would crumble if a researcher were to attempt to unfurl them by hand, likely destroying any trace of script. Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and cofounder of the Vesuvius Challenge, said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date, contained the most recoverable text, with the chemical composition of the ink appearing more clearly in X-ray scans. Researchers think the ink may contain a denser ingredient, such as lead, but further testing will be needed to identify the precise recipe that has made the ink so much more legible than other scrolls that have been part of the Vesuvius Challenge, the Bodleian Libraries said. 'Despite these exciting results, much work remains to improve our software methods so that we can read the entirety of this and the other Herculaneum scrolls,' Seales said in a statement. Seales told CNN last year that the key challenge has been to virtually flatten the documents and distinguish the black ink from the carbonized papyri to make the Greek and Latin script readable. The machine-learning techniques are not decoding the text but amplifying the readability of the ink used to write the scripts, he said. Transcription and translation of the text will rely on human scholars, including those from the University of Oxford, the library system said. Researchers are further refining the images of the scroll in hopes it will improve the clarity of the lines of text visible and perhaps reach the innermost part of the carbonized scroll, where the title of the work may be preserved.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
‘Disgust' among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition designed to accelerate the deciphering of the scrolls that form an unprecedented cache of information about ancient Rome and Greece. Using artificial intelligence and other computer-based techniques to piece together the scroll and enhance the ink, the Vesuvius Challenge team has successfully generated the first images of text inside the scroll, known as PHerc. 172. The library group said Wednesday that it has begun to interpret the columns of text. One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning 'disgust,' which appears twice within a few columns of text, the Bodleian Libraries said. 'It's an incredible moment in history as librarians, computer scientists and scholars of the classical period are collaborating to see the unseen,' said Richard Ovenden, Bodley's librarian and Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries, in a statement. 'The astonishing strides forward made with imaging and AI are enabling us to look inside scrolls that have not been read for almost 2,000 years.' The scrolls would crumble if a researcher were to attempt to unfurl them by hand, likely destroying any trace of script. Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and cofounder of the Vesuvius Challenge, said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date, contained the most recoverable text, with the chemical composition of the ink appearing more clearly in X-ray scans. Researchers think the ink may contain a denser ingredient, such as lead, but further testing will be needed to identify the precise recipe that has made the ink so much more legible than other scrolls that have been part of the Vesuvius Challenge, the Bodleian Libraries said. 'Despite these exciting results, much work remains to improve our software methods so that we can read the entirety of this and the other Herculaneum scrolls,' Seales said in a statement. Seales told CNN last year that the key challenge has been to virtually flatten the documents and distinguish the black ink from the carbonized papyri to make the Greek and Latin script readable. The machine-learning techniques are not decoding the text but amplifying the readability of the ink used to write the scripts, he said. Transcription and translation of the text will rely on human scholars, including those from the University of Oxford, the library system said. Researchers are further refining the images of the scroll in hopes it will improve the clarity of the lines of text visible and perhaps reach the innermost part of the carbonized scroll, where the title of the work may be preserved.
CNN
06-02-2025
- Science
- CNN
‘Disgust' among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll
Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled as part of the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition designed to accelerate the deciphering of the scrolls that form an unprecedented cache of information about ancient Rome and Greece. Using artificial intelligence and other computer-based techniques to piece together the scroll and enhance the ink, the Vesuvius Challenge team has successfully generated the first images of text inside the scroll, known as PHerc. 172. The library group said Wednesday that it has begun to interpret the columns of text. One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning 'disgust,' which appears twice within a few columns of text, the Bodleian Libraries said. 'It's an incredible moment in history as librarians, computer scientists and scholars of the classical period are collaborating to see the unseen,' said Richard Ovenden, Bodley's librarian and Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries, in a statement. 'The astonishing strides forward made with imaging and AI are enabling us to look inside scrolls that have not been read for almost 2,000 years.' Deciphering ancient scrolls with AI The scrolls would crumble if a researcher were to attempt to unfurl them by hand, likely destroying any trace of script. Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and cofounder of the Vesuvius Challenge, said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date, contained the most recoverable text, with the chemical composition of the ink appearing more clearly in X-ray scans. Researchers think the ink may contain a denser ingredient, such as lead, but further testing will be needed to identify the precise recipe that has made the ink so much more legible than other scrolls that have been part of the Vesuvius Challenge, the Bodleian Libraries said. 'Despite these exciting results, much work remains to improve our software methods so that we can read the entirety of this and the other Herculaneum scrolls,' Seales said in a statement. Seales told CNN last year that the key challenge has been to virtually flatten the documents and distinguish the black ink from the carbonized papyri to make the Greek and Latin script readable. The machine-learning techniques are not decoding the text but amplifying the readability of the ink used to write the scripts, he said. Transcription and translation of the text will rely on human scholars, including those from the University of Oxford, the library system said. Researchers are further refining the images of the scroll in hopes it will improve the clarity of the lines of text visible and perhaps reach the innermost part of the carbonized scroll, where the title of the work may be preserved.
Euronews
05-02-2025
- Science
- Euronews
AI gives first tantalising look inside a 2,000- year-old Roman scroll
The contents of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum have been seen for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and X-ray imaging. The document is one of many scrolls charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD and is too fragile to be physically opened. It comes as part of a project called the Vesuvius Challenge, which is a competition to read ancient scrolls launched in 2023 by Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, and Silicon Valley backers. The thick, paper-like material called papyrus cannot be physically opened as it would crumble. The researchers discovered a considerable part of the papyrus and some columns of text. One of the first words to be translated was the Ancient Greek διατροπή meaning 'disgust,' which appears twice within a few columns of text. Efforts are now underway by University of Oxford scholars to interpret more of the text. How does the tech work? The scroll was placed inside a synchrotron, a machine that uses electrons to produce a powerful X-ray beam that can look into the scroll without damaging it. The scan creates a 3D reconstruction and then the AI looks for the ink, which then digitally appears. The AI works like 18th-century copyists, replicating what it sees. ' This scroll contains more recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll,' Seales, Co-Founder of Vesuvius Challenge and Principal Investigator of EduceLab said in a statement. 'Despite these exciting results, much work remains to improve our software methods so that we can read the entirety of this and the other Herculaneum scrolls,' he added. Hundreds of carbonised scrolls were discovered in Herculaneum, buried under volcanic ash. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library holds several of the scrolls. 'It's an incredible moment in history as librarians, computer scientists and scholars of the classical period are collaborating to see the unseen,' Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian and Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries, said.
