UK scientists used AI to "virtually unroll" ancient scrolls charred by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. UK scientists ...

UK scientists have announced what they term a "historic breakthrough," after the first image of the inside of a scroll ...

This is not the first of its kind. The Vesuvius Challenge is a global initiative that was launched in 2023 to discover the contents of the Herculaneum Scrolls without physical intervention to the ...

The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add ... recoverable text than we have ever seen in a scanned Herculaneum scroll.” The scroll was scanned by Diamond ...

The ancient Roman town Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Of particular interest is a massive library, known as the Villa of the Papyri ...

The library of what’s called the Villa of the Papyri has the potential to add ... the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was ...

Before Mount Vesuvius demolished the Roman town of Herculaneum in 79 A.D., a massive collection of scrolls sat in what is known today as the Villa of the Papyri. Back in the day, the villa would have ...