A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...
This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...
The Herculaneum papyri, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, constitute one of the few preserved sources of Roman thought.
A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...
A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...
Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...
The bathhouse discovery, revealed to the BBC, is part of a BBC2 programme airing on Monday called Pompeii: The New Dig ... and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow. Mount Vesuvius, on ...
An "historic breakthrough" has been made as researchers have provided the first look inside an ancient Roman scroll in 2,000 years.
Rather, some of the groundbreaking discoveries that peel back the layers ... Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the ...