A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

For the first time in 1,900 years, humans have been able to read ancient text dating from the height of the Roman Empire. The historic text was written on a scroll of papyrus – a material ...

In the Roman Empire’s heyday, legal disputes and fiscal controversies were commonplace. While emperors paraded in marble-clad ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...