A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

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

After months of using AI techonolgy to translate an ancient greek text, one of the first words uncovered from the 2,000 year ...

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 ...

Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

Mount Vesuvius, a 600-meter-high volcano, is known to be located in the Gulf of Naples, on the west coast of Italy. On August 24, 79 AD, around noon, it spewed a colossal cloud of rock and gas into ...

An "eruption column" of rocky volcanic fragments and gas was blasted into the air above Mount Vesuvius. Then, from 2pm, pumice, a rock formed when lava solidifies, rained down. The debris ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum and is one of the most culturally important volcanic events in history. The rediscovery of the ...

He had observed an umbrella-like cloud looming over Mount Vesuvius around 1pm – the vertical plume of ash known as the 'eruption column'. Now considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, according to an official report on Sunday, as efforts are under way to evacuate thousands of villagers. Mount Ibu ...