The concept of “virtual unwrapping” first gained attention when this imaging method was used on the En-Gedi Scroll, an ...

Up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Inca communities in the Andean highlands used a peculiar form ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

These ancient books were found in ... written in carbon ink from their blackened papyrus background. Papyrologists were improving their reading of the old papyri. Better scholarship revealed ...

Although most papyri were preserved only as charred fragments, new technologies now allow for non-destructive reading of their ... to extract details from ancient papyrus is being used ...

Researchers say they've now managed to digitally unroll and start reading one of the ancient scrolls ... says it has virtually unwrapped the papyrus to reveal columns of text that Oxford scholars ...

Among the ruins of Herculaneum, archaeologists later discovered a library filled with hundreds of ancient scrolls ... about 10 meters of tightly wound papyrus — and digitally separate them.

Photos of the older papyrus fragments PHerc.1103 ... leaving researchers with little hope of ever reading the material. Cutting-edge technology brings scroll to life A research team used X-ray imaging ...

and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The ancient canvas highlighted a forgery case in ...

Smith sensed the scroll had great value, and he also suspected the merchant selling the ancient text didn’t recognize its value. Smith purchased the papyrus and returned to buy additional pieces he ...

It showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll ... thousands more scrolls. Reading all of them would be “the biggest discovery in the history of humankind, from the ancient world”, says Seales.