Step back in time to Rome in 500 AD and discover the city’s ancient wonders. From grand architecture to daily life, see how Rome thrived during this pivotal era.

Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were burned in the Vesuvius eruption.

A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a ...

Nader's model has since deciphered an additional four and a half columns of text separated by margins, although not all the visible letters are legible. DOI: Nature, 2023. 10.1038/d41586-023-03212 ...

This is just the latest example of scientists using the newest tools to work with the oldest materials. University of Kentucky researchers developed an A.I. system to read scrolls that were ...

Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls in unreadable char. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them.

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.