Secrets of the Dead, The Herculaneum Scrolls
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 10 PM
Thursday, Oct. 17, at 3 AM
Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 5 PM
Making headlines around the world, a team of computer scientists sets out on a mission to read the 2,000-year-old carbonized scrolls found in the remains of a villa in Herculaneum. Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 AD transformed the papyri, fusing together the layers of the scrolls and making them impossible to read. Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say?
