For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add immeasurably to knowledge ...