Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

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

During Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.

If you’ve been scrolling through your For You Page on TikTok, you’ve most likely come across the bizarre history-themed AI ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

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

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...

which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge ...