A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...
AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have ...
It's been left unread for nearly 2,000 years, last glimpsed when the Roman ... the ancient documents buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Known as PHerc. 172, this particular ...
Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...
The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.