After hundreds of years of trying, experts have finally managed to read a series of iconic, ancient scrolls – with a little help from AI. More than 800 of these parchments were retrieved from the ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Italy's Mount Vesuvius exploded, burying the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii under tons of super-heated ash, rock and debris in one of the most famous ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Hundreds of papyrus scrolls ...

The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a ...

In 2018, in the north of the Alps, archaeologists unearthed an ancient silver amulet, which they later recognized as the oldest known Christian artifact to be found in the region. What they couldn’t ...

A bust of the notorious Roman Emperor Nero side-by-side with Elon Musk (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, photo by Kevin Lamarque - Pool/Getty Images) A young researcher who made headlines for ...

On August 24, AD 79, the residents of Herculaneum and Pompeii collectively had what we might charitably call a Really Bad Day. The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius buried both towns under tons of ash, pumice, ...

The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be undecipherable. But new technology has allowed researchers to see what’s ...