A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Researchers and papyrologists have used technology to unravel a papyrus scroll without physical intervention, allowing them ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Researchers have taken one step closer to understanding the past after they managed to use artificial intelligence to read ...

Among the ancient Greek words identified so far are ἀδιάληπτος (foolish), διατροπή (disgust), φοβ (fear), and βίου (life).

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.

Farritor and Julian Schilliger — who won the grand prize of $700,000 for decoding a portion of what turned out to be an unknown work of an Epicurean philosopher named Philodemus. You can read ...

Luke Farritor, a University of Nebraska undergrad, made headlines by decoding ancient Herculaneum scrolls using artificial ...

A groundbreaking project seeks to unlock the secrets of ancient Roman philosophy with the help of cutting-edge technology and ...