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The Herculaneum scrolls are extremely hard to read because they are carbonized, physically distorted, and often written with ink that has weak contrast against carbonized papyrus.
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X-ray phase-contrast tomography and related CT techniques can capture the internal structure of unopened Herculaneum papyri without physically unrolling them.
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Virtual unwrapping is necessary because the papyrus layers must be segmented and geometrically flattened before text-bearing surfaces can be inspected.
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Machine learning in the modern Herculaneum workflow is primarily used to detect likely ink signatures and aid reconstruction, not to translate or independently interpret ancient language.
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Research has shown that carbon ink can leave subtle signatures in micro-CT data, making some previously unreadable Herculaneum text potentially recoverable.
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