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 Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in ...