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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using artificial intelligence, they’ve developed methods to peer inside the Herculaneum scrolls without damaging them, revealing short passages of ancient text. This month, researchers announced ...

In tandem with this pressure, there’s also this idea that nowadays, you can’t be original, even as there’s a mounting ...

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It is believed that while deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, French philologist and orientalist Jean-Francois Champollion ...

From neural networks unwrapping and reading ancient scrolls that were damaged during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, to algorithms hunting for geoglyphs in Peru’s expansive Nazca Desert ...

More information: Sabrina Turker et al, The 'reading' brain: Meta-analytic insight into functional activation during reading in adults, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j ...