2 papers
eess.IV2026
Complete virtual unwrapping and reading of a rolled Herculaneum papyrus
Giorgio Angelotti, Stephen Parsons, Federica Nicolardi +24
The carbonized papyri from Herculaneum preserve the only large-scale library to survive from classical antiquity, but many unopened rolls remain unread because physical opening ris…
cs.CV2026
Ink Detection from Surface Topography of the Herculaneum Papyri
Giorgio Angelotti, Federica Nicolardi, Paul Henderson +1
Reading the Herculaneum papyri is challenging because both the scrolls and the ink, which is carbon-based, are carbonized. In X-ray radiography and tomography, ink detection typica…