The Vesuvius Challenge has announced the latest award for the identification of the first title on one of the ancient ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago ...

The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was ...

The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July.

IT was an ordinary day when Mount Vesuvius plastered nearby towns in thick volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. A treasure trove of objects was buried, each giving an insight into the lives people led.

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

They're known as the Herculaneum Scrolls, an ancient collection of manuscripts that were carbonized and buried during the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago. Discovered in ...