After nearly 2,000 years, artificial intelligence is now helping decode the Herculaneum ancient scrolls found in the late 18th century. The scrolls, which look like a log of coal, survived the ...

Eight distinguished British and American classicists are calling for the immediate resumption of excavation at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in Southern Italy. In a letter published in The ...

Fragment of Herculaneum scroll is fixed in place at a Diamond Light Source experimental station after it was scanned using bright x-rays in Didcot.Reuters Fragment of Herculaneum scroll is fixed in ...

I have worked on the scrolls in the Herculaneum library since 2010, when I began my Ph.D. thesis on Philodemus's text On Poems. I worked on the papyri in Naples for a year and a half from 2013, and ...

When the eruption of Mount Vesuvius swallowed up the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79, it not only froze an ancient civilization, it also preserved the only surviving library from ...

The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July. A charred scroll recovered from a Roman villa buried under ash during the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For over two millennia, scrolls from the ...

John Martin, “Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” (1821) (via Wikimedia) Only one library from the classical world is known to have survived along with its texts: the Villa of the Papyri at ...

Talk about reading between the lines! Scientists wielding X-rays say they can, for the first time, read words inside the charred, rolled-up scrolls that survived the catastrophic eruption of Mount ...

It’s a peculiar historical quirk that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum also created one of the most detailed portraits of the ancient world ...