Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed. Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, ...

With the help of AI, 15 passages have been deciphered from a 2,000-year-old unrolled Herculaneum scroll, providing a glimpse into the thoughts of an ancient philosopher.

In 2016 Seales, who is at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he reported using the technique to read a charred scroll from En-Gedi in Israel, revealing sections of the Book of Leviticus ...

The title has been unread for nearly 2,000 years, ever since the volcano erupted in 79 CE, but now innovative noninvasive techniques have recovered it from the still-rolled scroll that would have ...

The scroll it contained was already evident during excavation, but because it had spent centuries rolled up, any attempts to unfurl it would cause it to fall apart, researchers believed.

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius ...

(CNN) — Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount ...