Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

The Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.