The scroll that competitors in the Vesuvius Challenge partially decoded: P.Herc.Paris The scroll that competitors in the Vesuvius Challenge partially decoded: P.Herc.ParisCourtesy of the Vesuvius ...

A remarkable ancient papyrus has shed new light on Roman legal proceedings in the Near East. Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of ...

One of the most persistent myths about history is that it's boring and static. When people think of history, oftentimes, they dismiss it as simply events that happened long ago. This view discounts ...

The 2,000-year-old scroll was buried in volcanic mud and ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (© Vesuvius Challenge; all images courtesy Vesuvius Challenge) An unopened scroll that was buried in ...

A charred Roman scroll that was buried in the Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79 has partly been decoded by a group of classical scholars thanks to a team of three young computer scientists working with ...

ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...

College Student Uses Machine Learning to Decipher Word in Ancient Roman Scroll Researchers have been itching to see what's written on ancient Roman scrolls recovered from the lost cities of ...

An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago, thanks to artificial intelligence and a high-powered X-ray ...

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 reams of ...

Artificial intelligence has helped decipher an ancient papyrus scroll, which was transformed into a lump of blackened carbon by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The first passages of ...