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 ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

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 ...

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.

It has to do with the chemistry in the ancient world ... in addition to the Herculaneum papyrus. They will provide a crucial building block for reading inside the scrolls. Brent has used his ...

A recent study conducted by Italian researchers has deciphered an ancient papyrus that reveals precise details about the burial site of the Greek philosopher Plato. This papyrus, found in Herculaneum, ...