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

During Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

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

For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.

The Herculaneum scrolls are ancient manuscripts buried and carbonized by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in AD 79. Recently, ...

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

Vesuvius Challenge Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 ...

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