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London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

The Herculaneum scrolls are ancient manuscripts buried and carbonized by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in AD 79. Recently, ...

UK scientists made a breakthrough in deciphering ancient scrolls charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ...

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 ...

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.

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. Known as PHerc. 172, this ...

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them to generate the first image of the ancient text. The scroll was buried ...

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 ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius ...