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

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

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

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

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

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 ...

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

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

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

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained ... the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.