Brent Seales, computer science professor at the University of Kentucky, discusses his work to rescue ancient text, such as that buried deep within the carbonized scrolls of Herculaneum.
BREAKTHROUGH: A major announcement on the two-decade journey to uncover ancient wisdom and read the Herculaneum scrolls will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12 via livestream: engr.uky.edu/live
You can learn more about the Vesuvius Challenge, an on-going global competition to read the Herculaneum scrolls, here: scrollprize.org/