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 ...

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 ...

The concept of “virtual unwrapping” first gained attention when this imaging method was used on the En-Gedi Scroll, an ...

The Herculaneum scrolls were so badly damaged in the A.D 79 eruption of Vesuvius that scholars feared the ancient library was lost forever. That just changed—with help from technology and a $1 ...

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Scholars needed a more subtle approach. One of the hundreds of scrolls unearthed in Herculaneum, now kept at the National Library of Naples. | Antonio Masiello/GettyImages Antonio Piaggio ...

For hundreds of years, hundreds of burnt Herculaneum scrolls had been entombed in ash after the 2,000-year-old eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Unearthed in the remains of a villa ...

I want to be able to read what's inside a Herculaneum scroll without having to open it. -Brent Seales is giving us all hope. -Cutting-edge science and technology are being used to achieve this ...

The first word found and translated from an unopened carbonized scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum was announced this week, as part of the $1,000,000 Vesuvius Challenge to read the papyri ...

Experts who announced the findings on Thursday hope that the techniques used will enable them to electronically reconstruct the full contents of the many Herculaneum scrolls that have been ...

Can particle physics and AI finally reveal what the scrolls say? The Herculaneum Scrolls was produced with the participation of UK Animation Tax Relief. Funding for Secrets of the Dead is ...

Carbonized papyrus scroll (top); Some of the Greek letters ... text to between 75 and 50 B.C. Its resemblance to text in other Herculaneum papyri led the team to conclude that one of their papyri ...