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

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge of ancient thought if the scrolls, which have been rolled up ...