The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document ... "It's the only map of the ancient world - although it's a copy - ...

If no more scrolls are discovered, “this will still change our understanding of the ancient world,” says Garrett Ryan, a historian and podcaster who studies ancient Greece and Rome.

An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago, thanks to artificial intelligence and a high-powered X ...

Image: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images/Gizmodo Researchers are using cutting-edge AI models to “read” ancient scrolls superheated ... The towns were wiped off the map for over 1,500 years.

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many ... were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.