The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll ... successfully deciphering and reading more than 10 characters ...

entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication.

Ancient Egyptians used the papyrus plant to make sails, cloth, mats, cords, and paper, which was the main writing material in ancient Egypt. “I published a paper on the preservation of papyri ...