A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

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

Old Manuscript of Gospel Decoded by Researchers, Reveal Details About Jesus Christ’s Early Life A papyrus fragment remained ...

It's been left unread for nearly 2,000 years. Now, scientists have used AI to virtually unfurl one of the Herculaneum scrolls ...

Scientists have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus describing a court process from the time of the Roman occupation of ...

According to scholars, the Herculaneum Scrolls have remained one of the ancient world's many tantalizing mysteries for nearly ...

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Fragment of a document from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, including a text of the Hippocratic Oath. Recto: A business or official document in a fluent cursive hand, almost entirely illegible. Verso: The ...

The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

Smith purchased the papyrus and returned to buy additional pieces he later identified as a continuation of the scroll. Now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, this ancient text has given scholars a ...

A new papyrus dating back over 1,880 years is giving archaeologists new insight into the Roman world’s legal system. Academics from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and ...

Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of ...