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 ...

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

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil recently offered researchers a unique glimpse into the geomagnetic turmoil caused by these catastrophic events. During the Laschamps excursion ...

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Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found guilty by a Newcastle Crown Court jury of two counts each of criminal damage for felling the tree and toppling it onto the ancient Hadrian's Wall.

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 ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known ...

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 ...

An ancient papyrus scroll that was charred due to the eruption of Vesuvius roughly 2,000 years ago has seen the light of day thanks to the efforts of archaeologists. Despite being rendered ...

An ancient papyrus scroll left "unreadable" after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is finally revealing its secrets. The scroll was discovered in the remains of a luxurious Roman ...