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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“Until now, the only way we have had to read what’s inside the Herculaneum scrolls is to put together the thousands of pieces of the ones that crumbled apart,” Richard Janko, a distinguished ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – ...

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 ...

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 ...