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 ...

For the first time in 2000 years, scientists have used artificial intelligence to look inside an ancient scroll that was heavily charred during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. In the middle ...

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 ...