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, ...

A Roman scroll, partially preserved when it was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, has been virtually unwrapped and decoded using artificial intelligence. The feat was achieved by ...

[Related: AI revealed the colorful first word of an ancient scroll torched by Mount Vesuvius.] In October 2023, Farritor, a 21-year-old Nebraska native and former SpaceX intern won the challenge’s ...

The field of archaeology has been revolutionized by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). The most recent achievement has been the decoding of a 2,000-year-old scroll without the need for ...

The University of Nebraska undergraduate student just made history after using AI to read a word from an ancient papyrus scroll Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to the ...

ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher ...

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People write down lots of things—from epic poems and sacred texts to tax decrees and shopping lists. But these things are of little use to anyone if they can’t be read. In the past few decades, ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...