Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team competing in the Vesuvius Challenge. Among the ancient Greek words identifi ...

Nearly 2,000 years after they were buried the scrolls are still to spill their secrets READ MORE: Plato's final hours 'revealed' by Herculaneum scrolls The Herculaneum Scrolls contain hugely ...

Lesser-known Herculaneum, which was devastated by the ... the only surviving library of the ancient world. Its thousands of scrolls were carbonised into hardened lumps by the heat of the volcanic ...

Farritor's use of AI to read letters from the Herculaneum scrolls came as they were considered too fragile to unfurl and, according to the Vesuvius Challenge website, they would "turn to dust" if ...

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 ...

In the mid-18th century, workers at Herculaneum discovered more than 1,000 papyrus scrolls that were singed and covered with debris when volcanic mud buried the city. Scholars later determined ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...