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THE WORD "PURPLE", A COLOR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH ROYALTY AND POWER With the help of artificial intelligence, an ancient Greek word has emerged from a text damaged in the A.D. 79 eruption of Vesuvius,  to decipher an unparalleled ancient library. The global competition - Vesuvius Challenge - offers prize money for significant benchmarks in coaxing the long-lost Herculaneum texts from their carbonized husks. Two competitors revealed at least 10 letters from a single small area of an intact scroll, including the colorful and complete “πορφύραc.” AI just deciphered part of an ‘unreadable’ ancient scroll. Here’s what it says. | National Geographic