In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and ... a library filled with hundreds of ancient scrolls. Like everything around them, these ...

An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago, thanks to artificial intelligence and a high-powered X ...

The artifact is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually unrolled ... to decode the wealth of information about ancient Rome and Greece contained within the papyri.

That feat would earn Farritor worldwide acclaim and $40,000 from the organizers of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global effort to decode the writings of burnt scrolls recovered from a library in the Roman ...

Scientists have been able to read a badly burnt ancient Roman scroll for the first time in 2,000 years. The scroll was found in the Roman town of Herculaneum and was burnt by the volcanic eruption ...

The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, is now decipherable, thanks to an open-source AI project. Computer science ...

The cargo ship was found laden with hundreds of Roman pottery jars, most of which are intact. The house, featuring erotic art and bronze statues, was the epitome of wealth in ancient times.