Using X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll ...

X-ray technology and artificial intelligence—along with the discovery of lead in the ink of fragments from a collection of ...

Learn how experiments with homemade scrolls could help reveal lost writing in the Herculaneum library buried by Mount ...

In a remarkable fusion of ancient and modern techniques, scientists have burned contemporary scrolls to unravel the secrets ...

But Daugherty never imagined that his algorithm could serve a very different purpose: helping to decipher a trove of fragile papyrus scrolls. Ancient scholars inscribed these scrolls before the ...

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Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

A University of Kentucky project using artificial intelligence to help decode an ancient Roman mystery has led to a major discovery, researchers announced Thursday. In 79 A.D., the eruption of Mount ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted, the explosion caused such extreme heat that victims' skulls exploded, their blood boiled and their muscles, flesh and brains were replaced with ash, according to a new ...

On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., thousands died and the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.