AI Just Read Scrolls Burnt by Vesuvius 2,000 Years Ago — Revealing Lost Wisdom of Ancient Philosophers

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AI has read the complete text of a Herculaneum scroll burnt by Vesuvius in 79 AD — revealing a lost Stoic treatise and an unknown book by Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, unread for 2,000 years.

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