In the year 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and ... a library filled with hundreds of ancient scrolls. Like everything around them, these ...

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 ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, is now decipherable, thanks to an open-source AI project. Computer science ...

A team at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire are working to read the scrolls, which were carbonised almost 2,000 years ago as the Roman town of Herculaneum was buried in volcanic ash. The two ...

For beneath that stone, Yigael Yadin, the expedition's leader, having been alerted by Porath, discovered a bundle of papyrus scrolls ... But in 106, the Roman emperor Trajan overran the Nabateans ...

Barbara Kellum’s field of expertise is the visual culture of the ancient Roman world. Her publications focus on everything from imperial building complexes to the shop signs and graffiti of Pompeii.