Hear from experts about the challenges of unraveling and reading hundreds of carbonized papyri scrolls buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Classicists David Blank of the University of California Los Angeles and Richard Janko of the University of Michigan discuss early and current attempts to open the fragile layers and decipher their texts, and computer scientist W. Brent Seales of the University of Kentucky shares how advances in technology and machine learning might allow the still unopened ancient book rolls to be "virtually unwrapped" and read.
October 19, 2019
The Getty Villa, Malibu, California
This program was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri" (June 26 - October 28, 2019) at the Getty Villa. For more information visit:
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