Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Turin university is to lead an international team aiming to use X-rays to decipher two papyri of an unknown work by a third ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago. Over a thousand scrolls were found ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

The Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been virtually "unwrapped" for the first time, revealing Greek text hidden beneath layers of carbonized papyrus. Scientists used X-ray imaging and artificial ...