"The most promising possible source of new material is the virtual unravelling of the rolls from the Library at Herculaneum ... are being used to read and decipher these scrolls.

Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, donated three million dollars to support projects aimed at deciphering the ancient Herculaneum papyri, which have remained a ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.

The scroll was buried beneath volcanic ash in the Roman town of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Known as PHerc. 172, it was among hundreds discovered in the library ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

The discovery is part of the Vesuvius Challenge, a global competition launched in 2023 that awarded cash prizes to researchers who could help decipher the carbonized scrolls of Herculaneum ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum ... more than 250 years on ways to decipher the scrolls, the vast majority ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls ... lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with ...

It's been left unread for nearly 2,000 years. Now, scientists have used AI to virtually unfurl one of the Herculaneum scrolls - the ancient documents buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.