Brent Seales called them Fat Bastard and Banana Boy. They were two charred, highly fragile relics that had survived the Mount Vesuvius volcanic eruption of 79 CE, which doused residents of Pompeii and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists are finally able to read a cache of scrolls incinerated during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79—but to decipher the entirety of 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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have used AI to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery, deciphering an unopened scroll charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. When it erupted in 79CE, the nearby town of Herculaneum was ...

On 19 October 1752, a discovery was made 20 metres underneath the town of Resina, near Naples in Italy. Peasants digging wells in the area around Mount Vesuvius had struck marble statuary and mosaic ...