Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

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

Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the catastrophic Mount Vesuvius eruption.

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

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls ... Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. Credit: AP University of Kentucky computer ...