After Two Millennium Researchers Finally Digitally Unwrap Burnt Scroll From Mount Vesuvius Researchers recently made a ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the clarity of the text. The process led to a 3D image of the scroll that allowed ...

A badly burnt Roman scroll destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been “unwrapped” for the first time in 2,000 years by using AI. The document, which looks like a lump of ...

Researchers have successfully generated a digital image of an ancient scroll from Herculaneum that has not been seen in almost 2,000 years. The announcement was made by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, ...

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.

This stunning satellite photo shows one of the world's most famous and potentially dangerous volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius, playing a game of peek-a-boo with an orbiting spacecraft through a strangely ...

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history, killing up to 16,000 people. Now, researchers have revealed a minute-by-minute account of ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...

Most of the burials belong to children. Before Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing ancient Mount Vesuvius eruption discovered in Salerno. (photo credit: Superintendency of Archaeology ...

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 ...