Researchers have taken one step closer to understanding the past after they managed to use artificial intelligence to read ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred scrolls.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

The disaster began midday on August 24 or October 24, 79 CE, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of volcanic fragments and gas into the air. A 32-hours nightmare: Minute-by-minute ...

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have ... who hid in the shelters and found a mysterious black and red residue covering the bones inside ...

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

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

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most ... rose from the volcano and made the towns around it as black as night. People ran for their lives with torches, screaming ...

Most of the burials belong to children. Before Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing ancient Mount Vesuvius eruption discovered in Salerno. (photo credit: Superintendency of Archaeology ...

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition ...

These marks were likely made as animals and people tried to flee an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Researchers ... in the shelters and found a mysterious black and red residue covering the bones ...