During Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E., thousands of papyrus scrolls were scorched, rendering their contents unreadable.
It was late into the night when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago ... who was found with his belongings ...
For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...
AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have ...
Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...
A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...
This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...
Mount Vesuvius famously erupted in 79 AD, blanketing the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash. It was revealed last year that victims of the eruption had died when extreme heat caused their ...
The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...
When Vesuvius had its last plinian eruption ... Sheridan has studied the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique, which devastated the town of St. Pierre, and has been closely ...