Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

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The ancient Herculaneum scrolls' long lost writings, charred and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are finally ...

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 ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

Joan Kee, director of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, discusses AI-aided research and art conservation techniques--a field that ...

I was reminded of the charred scrolls from Herculaneum, on which the Getty Villa was modeled, and the ashy human figures from Pompeii, frozen in the poses in which they died as waves of volcanic ...