A team of student researchers has made a giant contribution to solving one of the biggest mysteries in archaeology by revealing the content of Greek writing inside a charred scroll buried 2,000 years ...

In July 2024, Diamond's powerful light enabled a team from the nearby Bodleian Libraries to scan a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on ...

In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under layers of ash and pumice. Among the ruins of Herculaneum, archaeologists later ...

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This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. An ancient, charred scroll that once lied beneath the ashes of Mount Vesuvius has unveiled the true resting place of Plato—and a bizarre detail about ...

Artificial Intelligence has once again showcased its worth in surprising avenues as researchers reportedly used AI to decipher the hidden text of an ancient 2000-year-old scroll buried back when Mount ...

Hundreds of badly charred ancient Roman scrolls found in a Roman villa have long been believed to be unreadable, but a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has ...

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 ...

On a warm Saturday night at the end of August in 2023, Luke Farritor, then an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, was sitting alone in a corner at a house party in Omaha when his iPhone ...

A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic ...