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An expert said there could be more scrolls out there as artificial intelligence and other new technology helps to decipher ...
Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...
Eight newly installed Dead Sea Scrolls, including a rare manuscript outlining the beliefs and structure of the ancient Qumran ...
Pompeii breakthrough as ancient scroll finally deciphered after 2,000 years A £560,000 prize was on offer for scholars who could read the ancient Roman texts buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...
For over two millennia, scrolls from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum eluded analysis. Left buried under the ashes when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the scrolls were preserved – but in ...
Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in almost 2,000 years. The announcement was made by the Bodleian Libraries ...
Attempt to ‘virtually unwrap’ ancient scrolls buried by Vesuvius. The 2,000-year-old scrolls were carbonised in the eruption in 79 AD and are part of an ‘invisible library’.
Inside a vast villa at Herculaneum, some 1,800 ancient scrolls were carbonized by the searing heat from Vesuvius’s ash. Hardened into black lumps, the scrolls were discovered in 1752, but nobody ...
This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features, and more.
When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue's Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ...
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 ...