Vesuvius Challenge Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 ...

Scientists have digitally “unrolled” a Roman scroll charred by the Mount Vesuvious volcano eruption and left unread for nearly 2,000 years. Using artificial intelligence and X-ray imaging ...

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 ...

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

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 ...