Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

A rare set of 18 ancient scrolls from the ruins of Herculaneum, preserved for nearly two thousand years by volcanic ash, has arrived in the United Kingdom as part of an ambitious international effort ...

They were turned to carbonized lumps by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, scientists are offering £400,000 to the person who can decipher the charred Herculaneum Scrolls.

Modern scanning techniques and machine learning tools have made it possible to read fragments of the heavily-damaged Herculaneum scrolls. Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be ...

Lesser-known Herculaneum, which was devastated by the ... the only surviving library of the ancient world. Its thousands of scrolls were carbonised into hardened lumps by the heat of the volcanic ...

Farritor's use of AI to read letters from the Herculaneum scrolls came as they were considered too fragile to unfurl and, according to the Vesuvius Challenge website, they would "turn to dust" if ...

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman ...

AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius The medieval legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, the knight Sir Lancelot, the magician Merlin, and the quest for the Holy ...

They're offering up a $1 million US cash prize to anyone who can "make history by reading an unopened Herculaneum scroll for the very first time." The scrolls belong to the Institut de France ...