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

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

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

The Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.

Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the ...

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them ...

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

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

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...