A groundbreaking project seeks to unlock the secrets of ancient Roman philosophy with the help of cutting-edge technology and ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a library of papyrus scrolls was incinerated in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, for the ...

Among the ancient Greek words identified so far are ἀδιάληπτος (foolish), διατροπή (disgust), φοβ (fear), and βίου (life).

Works include Babylonian clay tablets, the Biblical Papyri and more than 250 different manuscripts of the Quran. Recent travelers described the library as a fascinating collection of cultural and ...

Deeds of sale written on papyri provide information on agriculture during the Nabataean period, Al-Salameen says. Other clues come from tombs or adjacent banquet halls containing remains of ...