The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient Herculaneum scrolls. The title has been unread for nearly 2,000 years ...

Researchers have revealed the identity of the author behind a charred scroll from the first century BC, thanks to the advanced X-ray technology. Found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum ...

The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on the I12 beamline and the collected X-ray data has played a crucial role in deciphering the text of this ancient artifact. By scanning ...

Carbonised papyrus scrolls, discovered in the 18th century ... a semi-public park-like area outside the city walls of ancient Athens that Plato had bought and where he had his school.

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 ...

Ancient papyrus scrolls that were buried in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD have been read for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The Herculaneum papyri ...

The winning submission shows ancient Greek letters on a large patch of scroll, and the author seems to be discussing the question: are things that are scarce more pleasurable as a result?

Mount Vesuvius Caused Romans' Heads to Explode The ancient scrolls were originally housed in the library of a private villa near Pompeii, and the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. buried and ...

The papyrus scroll was burned in 79AD in the volcanic eruption. The text in an ancient scroll that was badly burned in a volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago has been read by artificial ...

Contemporary archaeologists and scholars have been baffled by trying to figure out how exactly to read these scrolls to glean potentially groundbreaking information about the ancient Romans and ...

Here are all 10 locations. Red Bricks are no more — in The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game, you’ll find Ancient Scrolls instead. These function almost exactly like Red Bricks. They serve as kind ...

The En-Gedi manuscript is the first heavily damaged ancient scroll to be virtually unraveled and read, line by line, without opening it. The scroll, which now resembles a fist-sized glob of ash ...