How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history The mission is part of a huge scaling up of efforts to decipher the ‘Herculaneum scrolls’, burnt and buried in the eruption of ...

Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered ... The scan from the procedure was then used to create a three-dimensional reconstruction, which was analyzed by AI. This scroll was trickier ...

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls' long lost writings, charred and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are finally ...

AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius The medieval legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, the knight Sir Lancelot, the magician Merlin, and the quest for the Holy ...

While Herculaneum is often overshadowed by its ... sand — but the local authorities decided against using that in the ...

It is the loot of raiders who for decades have targeted sites from classical antiquity in southern Italy, such as Pompeii and Herculaneum. Some even used underwater metal detectors, GPS ...

They hail from an ancient library in the Roman city of Herculaneum and, as a result of Mount Vesuvius erupting in 79 CE, were fossilized into carbon and are incredibly fragile, per the competition ...

Modern scanning techniques and machine learning tools have made it possible to read fragments of the heavily-damaged Herculaneum scrolls. Hopes are now that more of the ancient writings will be ...

Events have begun in southern Italy to mark next year's 300th anniversary of the rediscovery of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. The city was buried in mud when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD - ...

The Archaeological Park of Herculaneum is regularly open during the long weekends of April 25th and May 1st, providing an opportunity to admire the domus of the ancient city. Free access is also ...

Dr Richard Miles follows in the footsteps of the 18th century archaeologists who discovered Herculaneum... To visit the incredible sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum as a tourist is incredible ...