What Scholarship Looks Like in the Digital Humanities
What Scholarship Looks Like in the Digital Humanities
February 2024
Congratulations to Brent Seales and the Herculaneum Scrolls project team on this astonishing achievement! ODH is proud to have supported a portion of their endeavor through our DHAG program.https://t.co/Gqg6ZcFryO
A team of student researchers has made a giant contribution to solving one of the biggest mysteries in archaeology by revealing the content of Greek writing inside a charred scroll buried 2,000 years ago by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The winners of a contest called the Vesuvius Challenge trained their machine-learning algorithms on scans of the rolled-up papyrus, unveiling a previous unknown philosophical work that discusses the senses and pleasure.
