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3,500-year-old purple dye found at ruined workshop in Greece, study says. Take a look
To the untrained eye, a heap of crushed shells and some purple pottery fragments might not look like much. But to archaeologists in Greece, these artifacts were remnants of a 3,500-year-old dye ...
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Using A.I., Researchers Peer Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
Greek Reporter10d
Greek Letters Reappear After 2,000 Years in Burned Herculaneum Scroll
Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...
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Rare Purple Dye Discovered in Ancient Fabric
“The color immediately attracted our attention, but we found it hard to believe that we found true purple from such an ancient period,” Ben-Yousef said. True purple, known as argaman, came from three ...
Artnet8d
Researchers Get a Peek Inside Another Herculaneum Scroll That Survived Vesuvius’s Eruption
Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...
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'Incredible moment in history:' Particle accelerator and AI offer first peek inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...