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.

The papyrus, known as PHerc. 172, is one of three Herculaneum scrolls housed at the Bodleian libraries in Oxford. The document was virtually unrolled on a computer, revealing multiple columns of ...

Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and cofounder of the Vesuvius Challenge, said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date, contained ...

Brent Seales, a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and cofounder of the Vesuvius Challenge, said the Oxford scroll, of all the Herculaneum scrolls scanned to date ...

The scroll is one of hundreds found in a Roman mansion in Herculaneum ... University Libraries. “The astonishing strides forward made with imaging and AI are enabling us to look inside scrolls ...

In the 1750s, hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the remains of a lavish villa in the Roman town of Herculaneum ... one of the three scrolls held at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.