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Elon Musk wants to get in on the action to decipher 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls
The billionaire suggested in an X post that he would contribute funds from the Musk Foundation to h…
Beatrice Nolan
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A former SpaceX intern and 2 other students won $700,000 for deciphering a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll using AI. Here's what it said.
Students unlocked the ancient secrets of the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI technology and won a grand…
Beatrice Nolan
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A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius
A 21-year-old undergrad won $40,000 as part of the Vesuvius Challenge by reading the first word in …
Jenny McGrath
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One Egyptian company is keeping the 5,000-year-old art of papyrus-making alive - here's what it's like inside
With major blows to the Egypt's tourism industry in the 21st century, papyrus makers are struggling…
Dylan Barth,Hossam Seliem
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Stationery chain Papyrus is reportedly shutting down stores across the US
Business Insider called five Papyrus stores in different states. One employee in California said th…
Áine Cain
One Egyptian company is keeping the 5,000-year-old art of papyrus-making alive — here's what it's like inside
Ancient Egyptians invented papyrus paper 5,000 years ago, and today, one village in Egypt is dedica…
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Stationery chain Papyrus is filing for bankruptcy and closing all of its stores, impacting more than 1,000 jobs
In the bankruptcy filing, it cited a period of overexpansion during the 2007-2009 recession and the…
Mary Hanbury
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A former teacher who spent at least $4,000 on her students details what she bought and why educators 'feel a lot of pressure to spend their own money'
Amelie Krikorian spent at least $4,000 to improve students' classroom experiences and brighten up "…
Madison Hoff
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AI helps researchers win $700k by decoding contents of 2000-year-old Roman scroll!
While many know the tragedy of Pompeii, Vesuvius also consumed nearby Roman cities, including the a…
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3 students won $700,000 for using AI to translate 2 tweets worth of text from previously unreadable ancient scrolls
The Herculaneum papyrus scrolls, preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, could "completely rewri…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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India-born author Nandini Das wins 2023 British Academy Book Prize
India-born author Nandini Das has been named the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for …
PTI
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Archaeologists have discovered full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in ancient Philadelphia
The artwork discovered in the ruins of Philadelphia offers clues to the lives of the communities th…
Bethany Dawson
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Sunken ancient temples were found in a mysterious underwater city, with Egyptian and Greek treasures
The temple was once part of a legendary city that disappeared after it sunk into the Mediterranean,…
Marianne Guenot
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2,000-year-old human skulls, oil lamps, and bronze daggers reveal possible necromancer's portal to the underworld in Jerusalem
Researchers found human skulls dating back to the second to fourth centuries in a deep cave arrange…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the ancient Egyptians hauled millions of 2-ton blocks of stone through the desert to build the pyramids
Scientists discovered a branch of the Nile that disappeared thousands of years ago that could have …
Marianne Guenot
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Ancient Egyptian mummies with gold tongues were discovered inside a tomb dating back 2,500 years
Archeologists discovered a man and woman's mummified remains in a tomb at El Bahnasa, Egypt, buried…
Alia Shoaib
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This barefaced beauty queen is the first Miss England finalist to go makeup-free
In the pageant's 94-year history, Melisa Raouf, 20, is the first contestant to compete without make…
Pauline Villegas
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2,000 years ago 'naughty' students in ancient Egypt were forced to write lines as punishment, newly discovered pottery fragments reveal
Archeologists discovered more than 18,000 shards of pottery used as writing materials in ancient Eg…
Alia Shoaib
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A child mummy from Egypt is the first found with a dressed wound, offering a rare glimpse into ancient medicine
The bandage was found on the body of a young girl who died in the 1st to 2nd century AD, a new stud…
Marianne Guenot
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10 things about ancient Egypt that movies and TV got wrong, according to an expert
TV and movies shape how we look at history, but did they get it right? Here are 10 ancient-Egypt fa…