The field of archaeology has been revolutionized by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). The most recent achievement ...

A Roman scroll, partially preserved when it was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, has been virtually unwrapped and decoded using artificial intelligence. The feat was achieved by ...

Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University’s School of Science have developed a computer tool that could facilitate the ...

[Related: AI revealed the colorful first word of an ancient scroll torched by Mount Vesuvius.] In October 2023, Farritor, a 21-year-old Nebraska native and former SpaceX intern won the challenge’s ...

The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum has puzzled archaeologists. Damaged by the famed eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., the scrolls had remained inscrutable — ...

Scholars studying ancient manuscripts like the Dead Sea Scrolls often have to do a good deal of detective work to determine their authenticity and meaning. But a professor at North Carolina State ...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, has a new exhibit that offers visitors a deeper understanding of ancient Judaism and the early foundations of Christianity ...

A new study is demonstrating how ancient animal DNA, extracted from Dead Sea Scroll parchments, can help with piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of disparate fragments found in the Judean desert. It's ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Such breakthroughs rarely happen in the derring-do fashion of ...

A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book — which may hold a key to understanding early ...