Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that ...

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 Caesar, were carbonised by scorching gases that engulfed the town during ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...

In recent years, artificial intelligence has been instrumental in deciphering the ancient, carbonized scrolls from Herculaneum, a Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius ...

Ancient scrolls charred by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago may finally be ... While the heat and ash from the volcano was catastrophic for the town, it preserved the scrolls - though in an ...

Using artificial intelligence and radiocarbon dating to determine the age of ancient manuscripts. Since their discovery, the ...

Technology reveals ancient text inside burnt Herculaneum scroll. ... The scroll was buried beneath volcanic ash in the Roman town of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, ... But that is what is required to unravel the papyrus scrolls found in Herculaneum, a Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.