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 breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in ...
Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...
U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...
Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...