The newly imaged scroll, PHerc. 172, contains the Greek word διατροπή, meaning “disgust,” repeated twice within a few columns. While much of the text remains to be deciphered, scholars ...

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 ...

Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek, was ...

X-ray scans and AI have meant the inside of ancient scroll can be revealed A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them to generate the first image of the ancient text. The scroll was buried ...

In July 2024, Diamond's powerful light enabled a team from the nearby Bodleian Libraries to scan a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on ...

What looks like a log of charcoal is priceless ancient text that's now decipherable thanks to open-source AI. Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the ...

It's a process he's successfully used in the past to read other ancient texts. In 2015, he was able to read a 2000-year-old carbonized scroll found near Ein Gedi in Israel. We were the first to ...

A study of a scroll made more than 2,300 years ago has revealed how there were likely far more venomous snakes in ancient Egypt than are living in the country today.

An infrared image of the ancient papyrus documenting a Roman court case. Israel Antiquities Authority. But in 2014, it was rediscovered by researcher Hannah Cotton Paltiel with the Hebrew ...