Researchers have been able to generate an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in ash with the ancient city of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that also destroyed Pompeii—a ...

Unlocking the mysteries of antiquity requires more than a key. Nobody knows that better than professor Brent Seales, who is attempting to decipher papyrus scrolls created about 2,000 years ago that ...

Three researchers won a $700,000 prize for using AI technology to read the scroll Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient Roman town Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Of particular ...

(CNN) — At first glance, the Herculaneum scrolls look unremarkable, like pieces of coal. After surviving the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the nearly 2,000-year-old documents would crumble if ...

The famous Herculaneum scroll, charred papyrus found buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, has been deciphered by artificial intelligence. The feat was achieved by students in the Vesuvius ...

ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...

The first word found and translated from an unopened carbonized scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum was announced this week, as part of the $1,000,000 Vesuvius Challenge to read the papyri from ...

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 ...

Part of an ancient 2,000-year-old scroll has been deciphered by researchers using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Three researchers recently won a $700,000 prize for using AI technology to read the ...